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The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads" "Wisdom begins in wonder.
Oct 1, 2025
Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.
In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.
How do we nurture the soul? By revering our own life. By learning to love it all, not only the joys and the victories, but also the pain and the struggles.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself.
The more you recognize the immense good within you, the more you magnetize immense good around you.
Perhaps the only limits to the human mind are those we believe in.
Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first - not through intellectual understanding. The intellect works best in service to our intuition, our inner guidance, soul, God or higher power - whichever term we choose for the spiritual energy that animates life.
God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you.
It's never too late to change the programming imprinted in childhood, carried in our genes or derived from previous lives; the solution is mindfulness in the present moment.
Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.
We must intend to live [the new spiritual awareness], to integrate each increased degree of awareness into our daily routine. It only takes one negative interpretation to stop everything.
At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.
Only through love can we obtain communion with God.
When we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than on diagnosing and judging, we discover the depth of our own compassion.
Meditation may require a lifetime to master, but it will have been a lifetime well spent. ... If you want to judge your progress, ask yourself these questions: Am I more loving? Is my judgment sounder? Do I have more energy? Can my mind remain calm under provocation? Am I free from the conditioning of anger, fear, and greed? Spiritual awareness reveals itself as eloquently in character development and selfless action as in mystical states.
God is the mind that imagines physical reality. We are each like a cell in that mind.
The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
Those of us who have transcended mythical belief systems know without any doubt that there is no God up in the sky. But when we awaken to what I call the evolutionary impulse - the mysterious passion to evolve, to become, to develop on every level-we rediscover who God is.
The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.
Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.
I died from a mineral and plant became, Died from the plant, took a sentient frame; Died from the beast, donned a human dress - When by my dying did I ever grow less.
At the deepest level of ecological awareness you are talking about spiritual awareness. Spiritual awareness is an understanding of being imbedded in a larger whole, a cosmic whole, of belonging to the universe.
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken.
Love is how it feels to recognize our essential unity. Awakening to oneness is the experience of Big Love. Knowing you are one with all, you find yourself in love with all.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don't have to avoid evil. They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action. They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
It is just a wonderful, wonderful time to be alive and to be able to be part of the ever-growing spiritual awareness that is happening around the world.
The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off from things as they really are.
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
There is no difficulty that enough LOVE will not conquer, no disease that enough LOVE will not heal, no door that enough LOVE will not open, no gulf that enough LOVE will not bridge, no wall that enough LOVE will not throw down, no sin that enough LOVE will not redeem.