Quotes about spiritual awareness
I have selected out various themes of quotations to make them a little easier to browse, all these quotes are about 'Spiritual awareness'.- Always remember you're unique. Just like everyone else. (Unknown)
- The more conscious you become, the more aware you become of how unconscious you've been. (Patricia Sun)
- To be alive, to be able to see, to walk... it's all a miracle. (Arthur Rubinstein)
- There is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
- Some things have to be believed to be seen. (Ralph Hodgson) [(on ESP)]
- We are each unique beings with a unique path in life. If we wish to be fulfilled, we need to go to our own hearts for direction. (Unknown)
- If you do this there will be no conflict within, you will grow in Spirit because you will be your true authentic Self - living at full potential. (Unknown)
- We are more than what we do... much more than what we accomplish... far more than what we possess. (William Arthur Ward) [writer]
- First I gave up action. Then idle words, and lastly thought itself. Now I am here. (Unknown)
- You are free to believe what you choose and what you do attests to what you believe. (Unknown) [A Course in Miracles]
- Light that is One though the lamps be many. (Robin Williamson)
- There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side. (Clement of Alexandria)
- If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm. (Warren Wiersbe) [on being a servant of god]
- Three things restore a person's good spirits: beautiful sounds, sights and smells. (Unknown)
- Spirituality for me is recognizing that I am connected to the energy of all creation, that I am a part of it- and it is always a part of me. (Oprah Winfrey)
- Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There is no greater investment. (Stephen Covey)
- We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility. (Albert Einstein)
- Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. (Betty Smith)
- This above all; to your own self be true. (William Shakespeare)
- When we develop reverence for food and the miracle of transformation inherent in it, just the simple act of eating creates a ritual of celebration. (Deepak Chopra)
- If you cling to an idea as the inalterable truth, then when the truth does come in person and knock at your door, you will not be able to open the door and accept it. (Udana Sutta)
- Talk to yourself in two languages - what do I fear and what do I love - in order to balance the body and the soul. (Peter Shepherd)
- Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it. (William James)
- Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.Dan Millman (Dan Millman)
- The more you recognize the immense good within you, the more you magnetize immense good around you. (Alan Cohen)
- Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask, but when we are challenged to be what we can be. (Morris Adler)
- You think of yourselves as humans searching for a spiritual awakening, when in fact you are spiritual beings attempting to cope with a human awakening. Seeing yourselves from the perspective of the spirit within will help you to remember why you came here and what you came here to do. (unknown)
- Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. (Judy Garland)
- We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are. (Anais Nin)
- All you need is deep within you waiting to unfold and reveal itself. All you have to do is be still and take time to seek for what is within, and you will surely find it. (Eileen Caddy)
- Carefully watch your THOUGHTS, for they become your WORDS. Manage and watch your WORDS, for they will become your ACTIONS. Consider and judge your ACTIONS, for they have become your HABITS. Acknowledge and watch your HABITS, for they shall become your VALUES. Understand and embrace your VALUES, for they become YOUR DESTINY. (Mahatma Gandhi)
- There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens. This is the light that shines in your heart. (Chandogya Upanishad)
- The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears. (Indian proverb)
- Temptation is giving in when you should be holding out. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
- Everything you're looking for lies behind the mask you wear. (Stephen C. Paul)
- It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken. (G.I. Gurdjieff)
- Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth. (William Purkey)
- We are, each of us, angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other. (Luciano Decrescenzo)
- The highest form of spiritual work is the realization of the essence of man.... You never learn the answer; you can only become the answer. (Richard Rose)
- 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. (Colin Gunton)
- Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the power to discern, to choose, to respond, to change. (Stephen R. Covey)
- Your behavior while people are watching is important. However, your behavior while no one is watching is more important, for it reveals your true character. (Unknown)
- I am - the two most powerful words in the world, for whatever we put after them becomes our reality. (Susan Howson)
- When the mind is controlled and still, what remains is the soul. (B.K.S. Iyengar)
- The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. (C.C. Scott)
- Of the Good in you I can speak, but not of the Evil. For what is Good, tortured by it's own hunger and thirst? When Good is hungry, it seeks food, even in dark caves, and when it thirsts, it drinks even of dead waters. (Kahlil Gibran)
- When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen. Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly (Edward Teller)
- Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. (Hans Margolius)
- Your perception is your reality. (Matthias Dunlop)
- Ever felt an angel's breath in the gentle breeze? A teardrop in the falling rain? Hear a whisper amongst the rustle of leaves? Or been kissed by a lone snowflake? Nature is an angel's favorite hiding place. (Carrie Latet)
- There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. (Alfred Korzybski)
- 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. (Margaret Wheatley)
- Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds. (Louise Hay)
- The world we are experiencing today is the result of our collective consciousness, and if we want a new world, each of us must start taking responsibility for helping create it. (Rosemary Fillmore Rhea)
- In the place of stillness, rises potential. From the place of potential, emerges possibility. Where there is possibility, there is choice. And where there is choice, there is freedom. (Gabrielle Goddard)
- A mind that has been stretched will never return to its original dimension. (Albert Einstein)
- Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. (Carl Schurz)
- This above all: To thine own self be true. (William Shakespeare)
- When we feel passion for something, it is because we are remembering what it was that we came here to do. The more passion we feel, the more in alignment with Source we are, allowing this energy to pour through us with no hesitation. This is the way it was meant to be. (Karen Bishop)
- Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. (Jon Kabat Zinn)
- Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality. (Wayne Dyer)
- So many assume the truth is either black or white... It's all evolution or it's totally creation, for example. Reality creates consciousness; consciousness creates reality. Actually truth is inclusive, neither black nor white, nor a shade of grey. Indeed, truth is a multicolored spectrum, a beautiful hologram! (Peter Shepherd)
- A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
- Live today not for tomorrow. (Wallace Huey)
- The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. (Henry Miller)
- We start, then, with nothing, pure zero. But this is not the nothing of negation. For 'not' means 'other than,' and other is merely a synonym of the ordinal numeral second. As such it implies a first; while the present pure zero is prior to every first. The nothing of negation is the nothing of death, which comes second to, or after, everything. But this pure zero is the nothing of not having been born. There is no individual thing, no compulsion, outward nor inward, no law. It is the germinal nothing, in which the whole universe is involved or foreshadowed. As such, it is absolutely undefined and unlimited possibility - boundless possibility. There is no compulsion and no law. It is boundless freedom. (Charles S. Peirce)
- What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate. (C. G. Jung)
- What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
- The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. (G.K.Chesterton)
- If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when? (Rabbi Hillel)
- Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. (Philip K. Dick)
- 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. (Clarissa Pinkola Estes)
- Do not dwell in the past, do not dwell in the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. (Buddha)
- We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. (Teilhard de Chardin)
- Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you. (Jim Rohn)
- The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. (Abraham H. Maslow)
- Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul. (Walt Whitman)
- Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself. (Andrew Schneider)
- Man has no body distinct from his soul; for that called body is a portion of soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of soul in this age. (William Blake)
- Don't believe everything you think. (Unknown)
- What is needed is not the will to believe but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. (Bertrand Russell)
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart. (Helen Keller)
- Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering. (Unknown)
- If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul. (Rabbi Harold Kushner)
- 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. (Eckhart Tolle)
- The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads (Unknown)
- A person does not have to be behind bars to be a prisoner. People can be prisoners of their own concepts and ideas. They can be slaves to their own selves. (Maharaji)
- When you pretend something that is true, then you immediately become that Truth. (Unknown)
- Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands - a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world. (Sidney Lovett)
- It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. (Decouvertes)
- Reflect upon you present blessings, of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. (Charles Dickens)
- True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess. (Louis Nizer)
- Any situation that you find yourself in, is an outward reflection of your inner state of beingness. (El Morya)
- 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, personal and family history, belief systems, and often political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you. (Eckhart Tolle)
- 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. (E. Merrill Root)
- Your beliefs select the reality you see. (Stephen C. Paul)
- The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind. (Wayne Dyer)
- The most common form of despair is not being who you are. (Soren Kierkegaard)
- If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice. (Meister Eckhart)
- Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. (Elizabeth Bibesco)
- There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. (Louis L'Amour)
- Don't think you are, know you are! (Morpheus)
- Where your talents and the needs of the world cross lies your calling. (Aristotle)
- 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. (Deepak Chopra)
- In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you. (Deepak Chopra)
- Acceptance is a magic key. Accept yourself as you are! And in that acceptance, intelligence arises. In that acceptance, why does intelligence arise? Because whenever you accept, you are no more divided. (Osho)
- 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. (Mahatma Gandhi)
- We must never cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. (T. S. Eliot)
- When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. (Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi)
- Bring everything up to the surface. Accept your humanity, your animality. Whatsoever is there, accept it without any condemnation. Acceptance is transformation, because through acceptance awareness becomes possible. (Osho)
- Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes. (Israel Salanter Lipkin)
- We can try many ways to get rid of darkness, but none is as effective as simply increasing the light. (Unknown)
- It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. (Sally Field)
- Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use. (Sai Baba)
- The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. (Leonardo da Vinci)
- You live in illusions and the appearance of things. There is a Reality, you are that Reality. When you recognize this you will realize you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all. (Kalu Rinpoche)
- Meditation takes place when you bring all your awareness to this moment. (Brandon Bays)
- Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. (Buddha)
- Faith is like a toothbrush. Every person should have one and use it regularly, but he shouldn't try to use someone else's. (J. G. Stipe)
- What we see depends mainly on what we look for. (John Lubbock)
- In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true, either is true or becomes true. (John Lilly)
- We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. (Thornton Wilder)
- Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow - it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it (Shakti Gawain)
- Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
- Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world. (Margaret Laurence)
- I close my eyes in order to see. (Paul Gauguin)
- Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a understanding of ourselves. (Carl Jung)
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