Quotes on Spiritual Awareness

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

Unity consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance of separation is one unified field of wholeness. Here the seer and the scenery are one.

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.

It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.

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.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

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.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.

Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

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.