Medina Spirit Quotes

souls should, by definition, also teach about “the metaphysical dimensions

Mrs. Medina looked at Lennie and realized now that she did truly love her, as you always love those few in your life who have rearranged your spirit, and little pricks of tears appeared in the corners of her eyes. She had expected this meeting with Lennie to show her what to do, to present her with something dramatic, a sign, a jolt that would shove her into action, indicate which way to go. But it wouldn't happen like that, she saw now. What would happen would be more like a slow undoing, thread by thread, of the texture and weave of her life, much like a poppy with its roots deeply embedded in a stone wall disengages itself, root by delicate root, to begin a new life in the soil.

We are always homesick for places where we cannot be. What are we longing for? Some feeling of wholeness or peace, something that's never possible right where we are? Some feel they are cut loose at birth and flung through time without any clue to where they belong, or with whom, and their life's obsession is to land somewhere, to find that missing person, or place, or spirit.

She said Frog eximplified transformation. He entered life in one form and left it in another. From egg to tadpole, to tadpole with legs, to amphibian with tail, to tailless frog, he was never the same. He began life in water, only emerging once he was his true self. He symbolized change, rebirth, and renewal, and his spirit could bring rain. Anna stared down at the ill-fated frog. The reservation was transforming…. And yet the very symbol of change had become a victim of it. The absurdity didn’t escape her.

Altars, or shrines, feed our spirit and psyche as they make visible our intent of bridging the physical and the spiritual realms and of sustaining the relationship between the two.

Mohammed WAS NURSED BY THE Jewish SPIRIT; fleeing from Mecca, where his preaching had aroused against him the Arabs who were true to old traditions, he sought refuge at Medina, the Jewish city, and as the apostles found their first adherents among the Hellenic proselytes, so he found his first disciples among the Judaizing Arabs.

If a boy escaped the fire with the basket, or if a girl fled the flames with the bow, then the tribe would know the child’s true nature, and the child would be honored for being a perfect and unique balance of male and female, neither one nor the other, but something more—a third gender, one thought to possess two spirits instead of one. The child, it was believed, would grow to be the tribe’s best protector, teacher, healer, provider, and caregiver. The child would forever be respected and revered.” Gran’s hands fell into her lap. “But that was long ago.

There was an express command not to engage in gossip under the Law. Now, many Christians today believe that the New Testament does not require obedience, but in Romans chapter 8 we are told that the work of Christ and the Holy Spirit are to establish the righteousness of the Law in us (Romans 8: 4). Furthermore, we are reminded in 1 Thessalonians 4: 11 and 2 Thessalonians 3: 11-12 to mind our own business.

During the return march to Medina after the victories of Mecca and Hunayn the Prophet said to some of his Companions: “We have returned from the Lesser Holy War to the Greater Holy War.” And when one of them asked: “What is the Greater Holy War, O Messenger of God?” he answered: “The war against the soul.” The soul of fallen man is divided against itself. Of its lowest aspect the Koran says: ‘Verily the soul commandeth unto evil.’ The better part of it, that is the conscience, is named the ‘ever-upbraiding soul’; and it is this which wages the Greater Holy War, with the help of the spirit, against the lower soul. Finally there is ‘the soul which is at peace,’ that is the whole soul no longer divided against itself, after the battle has been won. Such are the souls of those who have reached the highest degree, at the level of ‘the foremost, the slaves of God, the near.