“The universe is made up of vibrating, pulsing light. When our attention level drops, we don't see that. Instead we see what appears to be a solid material world.” WorldMadeLightUniverseLevelsAttentionAwarenessMaterialsBuddhismMaterial World Author:Frederick Lenz
“Everything depends on your state of awareness. If your state of awareness is low, then all the material success in the world won't help.” IfsWorldInspirationalStatesHelpingAwarenessMaterialsBuddhismDependsLows Author:Frederick Lenz
“But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It's the mind that moves.” MindDoeBodyMovingFourAwarenessMaterialsElementsStonesPlantFour Elements Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success.” StatesPhilosophyAwarenessMaterialsMastersBuddhismRamaZen Master Author:Frederick Lenz
“Define self-awareness and tell me what it is about it that requires something more than a material explanation. I do not accept the burden of explaining all phenomena, real or imagined. If you think more than matter is required for this thing you call self-awareness, which you have not defined, then you have the burden of showing why.” IfsThinkingRealSelfMatterAcceptingAtheismAwarenessMaterialsSelf AwarenessBurdenPositive AtheismDefinedExplanationExplaining Author:Victor J. Stenger
“If I may take the risk of defining what a spiritual experience is, it is one in which pure awareness reveals itself to you as the maker of reality - where you suddenly discover through insight or meditation or a freak accident that your essential nature is spiritual, non-material.” IfsMayRealitySpiritualMeditationRiskAwarenessMaterialsPureEssentialsInsightAccidentsMakersFreakDefiningSpiritual Experience Author:Deepak Chopra
“I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly. Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it. The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind. The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.” IfsKnowsWantMindStatesFactsArtistResultsPathFeetAwarenessMaterialsConcernPursueManipulationState Of MindArtwork Author:Agnes Martin
“For the material, at best, is only temporal, or temporary, while that which may be built from spiritual desire, spiritual purposes, is eternal.” MaySpiritualDesirePurposeAwarenessMaterialsEternalBuiltTemporary Author:Edgar Cayce