Spiritual quotes

[iljas]

Many of you who have subscribed to “A Quote a Day” Web services such
as Ruminations or the Book Foundation’s “Daily Inspirational and
Challenging Quotes on Pluralism and Diversity” will probably sooner or
later have realized that what once seemed a good idea ends up as an
annoyance. There’s nothing wrong with the quotes - they are as they
are described by the posters - but you will probably have found that
you have had no time to really process an often profound quote before
another is arriving in your inbox, then another, and another, ad
infinitum. So you create a special folder into which you dump them
promising to read them “later”. But you don’t read them later. What is
this all about? Well it’s simply the superficial consumerist mentality
spreading into the world of spiritual practice. A new “purchase” every
day keeps all ills at bay. It reminds me of the cartoon I saw
somewhere. I can’t quite remember the specifics, but essentially it
consisted of two New Age neurotic types seated in conversation. One is
saying: I’ve tried Sacracranial therapy, NLP, Reiki, Kundalini, Bhakti
chanting, Zen, Subud, Whirling. But the only thing that seems to help
is searching for new ways.