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.
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.
The awareness of liberation is not liberation. The awareness of time is not liberation.
No matter how long the room has been dark, an hour or a million years, the moment the lamp of awareness is lit the entire room becomes luminous. You are that luminosity. You are that clear light.
It is important not only to have the awareness and to feel impelled to become involved, it's important that there be a forum out there to which one can relate, an organization- a movement.
When you open up to awareness, it frees up your whole life.
The habit of quietly absorbing the shocks will be quite a great help to stabilize pure awareness. The technique is: Just feel not disturbed. The disturbing influence could be a blessing of Mother Nature to develop the habit to make best use out of every situation. Every situation is God Sent. With this supreme wisdom of life any situation can be used to our advantage and regarded as a blessing of Mother Nature.
It is called enlightenment, nirvana, God, truth, call it what you will. There is no activity other than the eternal activities of the universe, perfect being, the awareness of all suchness, knowledge.
You can accept it that it may be true what somebody else says, but until you have experienced it, it is not dynamic to your own awareness.
What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which is inspired by love. "Without love there would be no contemplation. " Contemplation is a loving attainment of awareness. It is intuition of the beloved object.
To me, voluntary simplicity means integration and awareness in my life.
Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.
I think we raised awareness of spice and what it's doing to people in prison. The media is also doing a good job of highlighting how dangerous it is as well, so maybe we can add to that.
I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.
Truth is pure awareness.
We are not really separate beings of light. That's a dream we are having, the dream of multiplicity. Meditation takes us beyond the moment to eternal awareness.
To have everything is to possess nothing.
Keep a constant awareness and a conscious effort to say good words, perform good actions, and to practice patience and compassion.
Birds. . . are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper,". . . The observation and recording of bird populations over time lead inevitably to environmental awareness and can signal impending changes.
All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.