Sun and Planets Spiritualities (AYINRIN): Spiritual Quotations on Surprise -Surprise Spiritual Quotations by Sun and Planets Spirituality AYINRIN Share That gratitude helps to kickbox our spiritual selves into gear comes as a surprise to a lot of people. — Geri Larkin, The Chocolate Cake Sutra. Spiritual Quotation Quotation by Dominic Grassi Share Sometimes God's justice comes to us like a childhood dream, in slow motion, not swift at all, but weighed down with unexpected love. — Dominic Grassi, Bumping into God Again. Spiritual Quotation Quotation by Thea Jarvis Share Hospitality is a virtue both ancient and new. Its element of surprise keeps us open to possibilities and in touch with the world around us. At its heart is a longing to extend to others the gracious welcome we ourselves hope to receive.

That gratitude helps to kickbox our spiritual selves into gear comes as a surprise to a lot of people.

— Geri Larkin, The Chocolate Cake Sutra.

Quotation by Dominic Grassi

Sometimes God's justice comes to us like a childhood dream, in slow motion, not swift at all, but weighed down with unexpected love.

— Dominic Grassi, Bumping into God Again.

Quotation by Thea Jarvis

Hospitality is a virtue both ancient and new. Its element of surprise keeps us open to possibilities and in touch with the world around us. At its heart is a longing to extend to others the gracious welcome we ourselves hope to receive.

— Thea Jarvis, Every Day Hospitality.

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Quotation by Vladimir Nabokov

Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

— Vladimir Nabokov, Making Peace With God by Harold Bloomfield, Philip Goldberg.

Quotation by Harold Bloom

Saint John of the Cross . . . said that God only to himself is neither strange nor new; even the holiest of the angels are perpetually surprised by God.

— Harold Bloom, Omens of Millennium.

Quotation by E. L. Doctorow

Sabbath implies a willingness to be surprised by unexpected grace, to partake of those potent moments when creation renews itself, when what is finished inevitably recedes, and the sacred forces of healing astonish us with the unending promise of love and life.

— E. L. Doctorow, Sacred Necessities by Terry Hershey.

Quotation by Christina Feldman

Silence is a teacher; within it we learn some of the deepest lessons of our lives about aloneness and intimacy, joy and sorrow, conflict and peace. When we speak less to the world and everything in it, we bring a silence in which we can listen to the story of life, other people, and our own heart. We learn to treasure listening and the richness it offers more than the busyness of our conclusions, assumptions, knowledge, or opinions. We are humbled by silence as we discover that our words can never fully describe the fullness and richness of any moment in our life that is truly listened to. There is so much that we do not know, so much that can not be explained, and we learn to embrace and welcome that mystery. Taking nothing for granted, we enter each moment like a visitor, willing to see anew and to be touched by each unfolding moment. We discover within ourselves the willingness to be surprised and understand that our potential to deepen as a human being relies upon our capacity to be surprised. We learn the joy of the present.

— Christina Feldman, Silence.

Quotation by Patricia Ryan Madson

don't prepare

• Give up planning. Drop the habit of thinking ahead.

• Attend carefully to what is happening right now.

• Allow yourself to be surprised.

• Stockpiling ideas for future use is unnecessary.

• Trust your imagination. There is always something in the box.

• Welcome whatever floats into your mind.

• Fear is a matter of misplaced attention. Focus on redirecting it.

— Patricia Ryan Madson, Improv Wisdom.

Quotation by David Steindl-Rast

Another name for God is surprise.

— David Steindl-Rast, The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo.

Quotation by Hafiz

Something has happened

To my understanding of existence

That now makes my heart always full of wonder

And kindness.

— Hafiz , If the Buddha Got Stuck by Charlotte Sophia Kasl.

Quotation by Thea Jarvis

— Thea Jarvis, Every Day Hospitality.

Quotation by Dominic Grassi

Sometimes God's justice comes to us like a childhood dream, in slow motion, not swift at all, but weighed down with unexpected love.

— Dominic Grassi, Bumping into God Again.

Quotation by Geri Larkin

That gratitude helps to kickbox our spiritual selves into gear comes as a surprise to a lot of people.

— Geri Larkin, The Chocolate Cake Sutra.

Quotation by Molly Fumia

To be joyful in the universe is a brave and reckless act. The courage for joy springs not from the certainty of experience, but the surprise. Our astonishment at being loved, our bold willingness to love in return — these wonders promise the possibility of joyfulness, no matter how often and how harshly love seems to be lost. Therefore, despite the world's sorrows, we give thanks for our loves, for our joys and for the continued courage to be happily surprised.

— Molly Fumia, A Grateful Heart by M. J. Ryan, editor.

Quotation by Joan Chittister

Everyone we meet in life is on a mission to teach us something new. Surprise!

— Joan Chittister, Gospel Days.

Quotation by Joan Chittister

There's a Samaritan waiting in every one of our lives, the scripture implies: someone from whom we expect very little but from whom, if we listen, we can receive a great deal. Think a minute. Who was your Samaritan this week? Who surprised you with kindness or gratitude or insight?

— Joan Chittister, Gospel Days.

Quotation by Henri J. M. Nouwen

Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy. It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.

— Henri J. M. Nouwen, The Dance of Life by Henri J. M. Nouwen, Michael Ford.

Quotation by Carla Needleman

Every living thing, even a plant that I accept into my home, is capable of the unexpected. It has its own integrity in which it needs to be respected. (That I do not respect it shows my lack of reverence for life--in a plant, in a poem, in an idea, even in myself for the life within me that moves me.) An idea can help me only if I accept it into myself and give it room. I need to watch and not be hasty. Some plants require direct sunlight, some do best in diffused light, some need to be kept moist, some to dry out.

— Carla Needleman, The Work of Craft.

Quotation by Carla Needleman

— Carla Needleman, The Work of Craft.

Quotation by George Sheehan

The aging game is a sport for which childhood and youth and maturity are no more than a preparation. Its scope comes as a surprise. It expands my life at a time when I expected it to diminish. it demands an excellence that no longer seemed necessary. It asks me to surpass what I did at the peak of my powers. Age will not accept second best.

— George Sheehan, Going the Distance.

Quotation by Jean Dalby, Wallace Clift

A number of people in our increasingly complex world have found themselves going on unexpected pilgrimages back to the world of indigenous peoples to tap into a simpler, more natural connection with the earth and with a spirituality somehow based on that closer connection. The change is then experienced by the pilgrim as a spiritual experience, a change in values, in how they look at the world and at other people, finding wisdom in unexpected places.

— Jean Dalby, Wallace Clift, The Archetype of Pilgrimage by Jean Dalby Clift, Wallace B. Clift.

Quotation by Christopher Fry

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

— Christopher Fry, Finding What You Didn't Lose by John Fox.

Quotation by Christopher Fry

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

— Christopher Fry, Finding What You Didn't Lose by John Fox.

Quotation by Shaun McNiff

People who travel on pilgrimages report how the insights of the journey are always far afield of expectations. Things come upon the pilgrim in surprising ways. But there is a universal requirement: a person desiring transformation must get out onto the road and into new environments. The encrusted ways of habit have to be broken, and this alters a person's chemistry.

— Shaun McNiff, Earth Angels.

Quotation by Joan Chittister

I see in a friend someone I respect for qualities I admire and someone who, however surprising I find it, respects me for gifts I have trouble seeing in myself. I feel my own quality in the presence of a sterling friend.

— Joan Chittister, There Is A Season.

Quotation by Joan Chittister

— Joan Chittister, Gospel Days.

Quotation by Henri J. M. Nouwen

Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise.

— Henri J. M. Nouwen, Frederic Brussat's Twitter Collection.

Quotation by Madonna Kolbenschlag

The spiritual quest meets us at the borders of our soul, in our encounters and experiences, in the struggles and surprises within and without. The personal life, the inner landscape, is a mirror of the social challenges and geopolitics of our time. It is a geography of soul with many hemispheres. To ignore one at the expense of the other is to risk never knowing who we really are, never discovering our true destiny.

— Madonna Kolbenschlag, Eastward Toward Eve.

Quotation by C. S. Song

The grace that does not take us by surprise is no grace, at least it is not God's grace. The grace that does not compel us to stretch our imagination is no grace; that is not the grace Jesus discloses to us.

— C. S. Song, Jesus and the Power of the Spirit.

Quotation by Alice Walker

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

— Alice Walker, Frederic Brussat's Twitter Collection.

Quotation by Mason Cooley

"Why not?" is a slogan for an interesting life.

— Mason Cooley, Frederic Brussat's Twitter Collection.

Quotation by Lawrence Kushner

No one — of any age — can convincingly answer any of the "big" questions: Is there really a God? What happens when you die? Why do good people suffer? Who made the world? No one really knows. So what is left to teach? Only increasingly clever ways of asking the questions, posing the problems, surprising the imagination, awakening the soul. And those are things which adults and children can teach one another.

This spirituality business is not about answers, but about ways of asking about the meaning of life and creation. A "bad" question slams the door but a "good" question just gets you to wondering and the wondering is wonderful.

— Lawrence Kushner, The Book of Miracles.

Quotation by Joan Chittister

Someone will irritate you today. Be kind in return. Then ask yourself what happened inside you as a result. Surprise.

— Joan Chittister, Light in the Darkness.

Quotation by John Tarrant

Descent into mystery is a late form of the plunge into night. Mystery is what we don't know, what doesn't fit, what we have not made into shape and order; it tells us that surprise is at the core of life, terrifying but also delicious.

— John Tarrant, The Light Inside the Dark.

Quotation by Henry Suso

Lord, you are like a wildflower. You spring up in places where we least expect you. The bright color of your grace dazzles us. Far from trying to possess you, you may possess us.

— Henry Suso, When True Simplicity Is Gained by Micah Marty.

Quotation by Mitsu Aida

My father and mother, altogether two.

Parents of my father and mother, altogether four.

Parents of parents, altogether eight.

If I count this way,

Back to ten generations, altogether 1,024.

What about back to twenty generations?

To my surprise, over one million people.

From infinite past, a life rally baton has passed on.

Here, now I live with my baton.

This is your life!

This is my life!

— Mitsu Aida, River of Fire, River of Water

Quotation by Lawrence Kushner

— Lawrence Kushner, The Book of Miracles.

Quotation by Mason Cooley

"Why not?" is a slogan for an interesting life.

— Mason Cooley, Frederic Brussat's Twitter Collection.

Quotation by Diarmuid O'Murchu

In a quantum universe, nothing is predictable, and the idea of life being in any way determined is abhorrent. Quantum theorists very much like the word "probability" (for which Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is a basic tenet). Surprise, expectancy, wonder, creativity, beauty, and elegance are the kind of words that enable the quantum scientist to make sense of reality.

— Diarmuid O'Murchu, Quantum Theology.

Quotation by Robert Thurman

We are aware of the power of brainwashing to develop fanaticism and hatred, but we fail to respect the power of positive conditioning to systematically develop openness of mind, altruistic compassion, and joyous love. We are happy when people are generous, peaceful, and loving, but we think it a surprise, an aberration from the norm of self-concern.

— Robert Thurman, Inner Revolution.

Quotation by David Steindl-Rast

There is a close connection between hope and hopes, but we must not confuse the two. We set our hopes on something we can imagine. But hope is open for the unimaginable. The opposite of hopes is hopelessness. The opposite of hope is despair. One can cling desperately to one' s hopes. But even in a hopeless situation hope remains open for surprise. It is surprise that links hope with gratefulness. To the grateful heart every gift is surprising. Hope is openness for surprise.

— David Steindl-Rast, Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer.

Quotation by Nilton Bonder

Irritation and rage are phenomena that tend to take on importance — or not — depending on our initial expectation. Whoever wants to live with as little unpleasantness as possible must work on his or her expectations regarding others. These are daily exercises for avoiding disappointment, for being surprised. They enable us not to demand what cannot be required of others.

— Nilton Bonder, The Kabbalah of Envy.

Quotation by Frederick Buechner

Happiness turns up more or less where you'd expect it to — a good marriage, a rewarding job, a pleasant vacation. Joy, on the other hand, is as notoriously unpredictable as the one who bequeaths it.

— Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words.

Quotation by Noelle Oxenhandler

I love the word pause. . . . Such a time represents a kind of time that is vanishing: a floating time, completely free of usefulness, suspended between wakefulness and sleep. This is the time zone of wonder, when we fall out of the habitual, the taken-for-granted, and are startled by what is.

— Noelle Oxenhandler, Sabbath Keeping by Donna Schaper.

Quotation by Joan Chittister

Surprise is God's way of saying "hello." The response is optional.

— Joan Chittister, Gospel Days.

Quotation by Theodore Zeldin

There are not many people totally devoid of some trace of kindness. To find that trace of gold, when it is hidden in apparently stony ground, is one of the most exciting of all challenges.

— Theodore Zeldin, Conversation.

Quotation by David Steindl-Rast

Another name for God is surprise!

— David Steindl-Rast, The Fine Arts of Relaxation, Concentration, and Meditation by Joel Levey, Michelle Levey.

Quotation by Roger Housden

Love is more like an electrical storm than a pension plan. It has scant regard for our rational intentions. When it comes, almost always unbidden, love will upset our comfortable routines. Like so much confetti, it will fling into the air all our fantasies of what our life is meant to look like.

— Roger Housden, Ten Poems To Open Your Heart.

Quotation by Theodore Zeldin

There are not many people totally devoid of some trace of kindness. To find that trace of gold, when it is hidden in apparently stony ground, is one of the most exciting of all challenges.

— Theodore Zeldin, Conversation.

Quotation by Gary Thorp

Sometimes things have a way of moving in on us. They appear in various ways, and it's not always clear to us what their motivations or goals might be. Whether it's a mouse, a string of insects, or a visit from the building inspector, we will always find times in our lives when we are face-to-face with the unannounced and unexpected visitor. How we deal with these surprises can show us a new side of ourselves and can also be a factor in determining how we evolve into the people we become.

— Gary Thorp, Sweeping Changes.

Quotation by Virginia Woolf

What is the meaning of life? . . . The great revelation . . . never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.

— Virginia Woolf, Lessons from the Dying by Rodney Smith.

Quotation by Hugh Prather

Beneath the garments of the world is joy.

— Hugh Prather, Spiritual Notes to Myself.

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Quotation by David Steindl-Rast

Faith is the heart's response to life as gift. The heart's response to life as surprise is hope.

— David Steindl-Rast, Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer.

Quotation by Hadith

Hidden Joy

Allah has said:

I have prepared for those

who act with justice toward each other

what no eye has seen

and no ear has heard,

nor has it occurred to the human heart.

No soul knows what hidden joy

awaits it for acting justly.

— Hadith , The Genesis Meditations by Neil Douglas-Klotz.

Quotation by Rachel Naomi Remen

Mystery seems to have the power to comfort, to offer hope, and to lend meaning in times of loss and pain. In surprising ways it is the mysterious that strengthens us at such times. I used to try to offer people certainty in times which were not at all certain and could not be made certain. I now just offer my companionship and share my sense of mystery, of the possible, of wonder.

— Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom.

Quotation by Jeffrey Kottler, Jon Carlson, Bradford Keeney

The main operating premise that guides Keeney's work is to do what is unexpected, to shock and suprise the client as much as possible. The shaman's main goal is to engage the client in the sort of play that leads to transformation.

— Jeffrey Kottler, Jon Carlson, Bradford Keeney, American Shaman.

Quotation by Michael Berg

In the time of the great Kabbalist Rav Isaac Luria, there lived an eminent sage and scholar named Rav Yosef Karo. Once, after weeks of meditation on a difficult passage of the Bible, Rav Karo penetrated its deepest meaning. Delighted, he posed the question to a student, expecting that the student would appreciate his master's explanation. To his suprise, the student immediately saw the answer. Rav Karo could not believe that what had taken him weeks of intense study to uncover had taken the student a few minutes.

Despondent, he began questioning himself. Perhaps he had been given too much credit. Perhaps he should give up teaching. He wandered the streets and encountered the eminent Rav Luria, who asked him why he looked so downcast. After listening patiently, Luria spoke.

"There was a village whose water came from a spring at the top of a mountain. Few villagers had the strength to walk up to the top, so it was one man's job to fetch water for the entire village. It took him many hours to fill the huge buckets. When he did, everyone came and filled their little cups from these buckets, which of course took only minutes. Even the weakest of them had no trouble.

"What I'm saying is that your weeks of work opened up a channel of understanding. Once that channel was open, it was simple for your student to also understand."

— Michael Berg, Becoming Like God.

Quotation by Gail Godwin

There are two kinds of people. One kind you can just tell by looking at them at what point they congealed into their final selves. It might be a very nice self, but you know you can expect no more surprises from it. The other kind keep moving forward and making new trysts with life, and the motion of it keeps them young. In my opinion, they are the only people who are still alive. You must be constantly on your guard against congealing.

— Gail Godwin, Hope Notes by R. Wayne Willis.

Quotation by David Steindl-Rast

Surprise is the starting point. Through surprise our inner eyes are opened to the amazing fact that everything is gratuitous. . . . In the end, gratefulness will be our full aliveness to a gratuitously given world.

— David Steindl-Rast, Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer.

Quotation by Joan Chittister

So mystery, the notion that something wonderful can happen at any time if we only allow space for it, takes us into a whole new awareness of the immanence of God in time. God comes, we learn now, when we least expect it. Maybe most likely of all when we least expect it.

— Joan Chittister, The Gift of Years.

Quotation by Dawna Markova

Several year ago, I was walking in March along a gravel road that led to the ocean in Rhode Island. A very old and thin woman came hobbling down a driveway toward me. I waved and continued walking, but as I passed, she grabbed my arm, turned around and began to pull me in the direction of her house. I instantly thought of the witch in Hansel and Gretel, and tried to pull back, but that only made her clutch tighter around my wrist. Besides, she didn't cackle, so I relented.

She didn't say a word, in fact, until we approached her house: a shingle-style cottage with green shutters and a front lawn erupting everywhere in purple crocuses. She released me there, throwing her arms up in the air and shouting, "Look at this splendor! Isn't it a miracle?!"

— Dawna Markova, Giving Thanks by M. J. Ryan.

Quotation by Piero Ferrucci

Forgiveness is a positive quality. It contains joy and faith in others, generosity of spirit. Illogical and surprising, sometimes sublime, it frees us from the ancient chains of resentment. Whoever forgives, feels uplifted.

— Piero Ferrucci, The Power of Kindness

Quotation by Daphne Rose Kingma

Love of the heart and soul is mysterious. It takes chances. It believes in miracles. It is breath, movement, magic, music, the evanescent movement, the blissful surprise. To be available to the mystery means that you are open, expectant, waiting — continually poised on tiptoe, prepared to be illumined — not locked in your own expectations of how you think it should happen.

— Daphne Rose Kingma, The Book of Love.

Quotation by Michael Casey

We do not race ahead like a speed boat; our progress is like that of a minesweeper, crisscrossing the same places several times as we go forward. It takes time for us to become attuned to the subtle rhythms of a particular writing; the more we can slow down our reading, the more likely it is that we will catch sight of something unexpected.

— Michael Casey, Sacred Reading.

Quotation by Antonio Machado

Don't be surprised, dear friends,

that my forehead is furrowed.

With men I live in peace, but with my

insides I am at war.

— Antonio Machado, There Is No Road.

Quotation by Robert Benson

There have not been many moments in my life in which I ever imagined the life that I am living now, and so I am cautious about predicting what may or may not happen to me next. The best things in my life have all been a surprise to me, and I have learned just to be still and be ready.

— Robert Benson, Home By Another Way.

Quotation by Kathleen Norris

The Cherokee writer Diane Glancy once told me that she liked Revelation because there was so much to look at, so much that resonated with Indian culture. The Book of Revelation does not make for easy listening, but Diane's comment reminded me that I could simply shut my eyes and let the pictures unfold. To my surprise, I found it a relief to listen to John's baffling, wild, beautiful, and often frightening images without resisting, without always seeking to make sense of them. Slowly, I began to grasp the consoling and even healing power of apocalypse. Most important of all, I saw the need to reclaim it as poetic turf.

— Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk.

Quotation by Kathleen Norris

— Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk.

Quotation by Rainer Maria Rilke

Almost all of our sadnesses are moments of paralysis of feeling when we can no longer hear our surprised feelings living.

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Finding What You Didn't Lose by John Fox.

Quotation by Scott Russell Sanders

The trouble is, we cannot banish ugly surprises without banishing lovely ones as well. The unexpected may annoy us, but may also wake us up. If you seal your windows against the odor of skunks and the shriek of sirens, you will also miss the lilacs and finches, the yeasty breath of bakeries and the playground squeal of children.

— Scott Russell Sanders, Writing from the Center.