Quotes about spirit
spiritual appreciate hiding
The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything. Eckhart Tolle
spiritual expression brain
The brain does not create consciousness, but conciousness created the brain, the most complex physical form on earth, for its expression.
spiritual enemy new-earth
You have so much to learn from your enemies.
spiritual believe men
Man Made 'God' in his own image. The eternal, the infinate, the unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as 'my god' or 'our god'.
spiritual war self
If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. Wars have been fought over this, and countless relationships have broken down.
spiritual acceptance grace
Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world.
spiritual reality people
The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality
spiritual roles impossible
Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role.
spiritual reality survival
If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.
spiritual teacher people
I have seen cases where people seemed to become totally free of ego, and at some point in their lives the ego came back. It has happened, for example, to some spiritual teachers. At some point in their lives, they began to identify again with form.
spiritual people ego
If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks like weakness to the ego is in fact the only true strength. This spiritual truth is diametrically opposed to the values of our contemporary culture and the way it conditions people to behave.
spiritual true-power awareness
True Power is within, and it is available now.
spiritual people new-earth
Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.
spiritual who-i-am self
Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self created suffering comes to an end.
spiritual defining new-earth
Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.
spiritual power-of-now
What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.
spiritual creativity mind
True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided by an intelligence far greater than the human mind.
spiritual ego mind
The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.
spiritual get-well healing
To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.
spiritual freedom joy
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
spiritual new-earth resent
Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.
spiritual past new-earth
The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.
spiritual taken sight
Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.
spiritual forgotten power-of-now
I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.
spiritual miracle forgiving
Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender.
spiritual cat meditation
I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.
spiritual thinking live-in-the-moment
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.
spiritual thinking incessant
It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.
spiritual greatness ideas
The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.
spiritual world dimensions
When another recognizes you, that recognition draws the dimension of Being more fully into this world through both of you. That is the love that redeems the world.
spiritual two worry
What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.
spiritual people mind
For many people, the first indication of a spiritual awakening is that they suddenly become aware of their thoughts. They become a witness to their thoughts, so to speak. They are not completely identified with their mind anymore and so they begin to sense that there is a depth to them that they had never known before.
spiritual awakening fullness
When there is spiritual awakening, you awaken into the fullness, the aliveness, and also the sacredness of now. You were absent, asleep, and now you are present, awake.