“As citizen-activists the world over merge, they can become an irresistible force to create peace and protect the planet. From here will come a new movement to abolish nuclear weapons and all weapons of mass destruction. From here will come the demand for sustainable communities, for new systems of energy, transportation and commerce. From here comes the future rushing in on us. How does one acquire the capacity for active citizenship? The opportunities exist every day...Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.” WorldDoeSpiritualOpportunityEnergyForceCommunityPrinciplesMovementPlanetsCitizensProtectDemandWeaponsMassConsciousCapacityDestructionActiveNuclearOutcomesAcquireActivistApplicationSustainabilityNuclear WeaponsCommerceCitizenshipIrresistibleTransportationWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionRushingAbolishEnvisioningRushing InIrresistible ForceActive Citizenship Author:Dennis Kucinich
“Our success in America will involve two circles: Black Nationalism and Islam–it will take BN [Black Nationalism] to make our people conscious of doing for self & then Islam will provide the spiritual guidance. BN [Black Nationalism] will link us to Africa and Islam will link us spiritually to Africa, Arabia & Asia.” PeopleTwoSelfAmericaSpiritualBlackConsciousIslamCirclesGuidanceNationalismLinksAsiaArabiaSpiritual GuidanceBlack Nationalism Author:Malcolm X
“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.” MindHumansSpiritualCreativityGreaterConsciousFlowIntelligenceGuidanceDimensionsHuman MindStillnessSpiritual WisdomSerenityTranquilityCalmnessSpiritual AwakeningPeace And QuietSpiritual Dimensions Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of the chosen few, and create for them visions of aethereal beauty? Do landscape painters of genius walk the plains of Heaven? Or is it only vanity that urges him to paint?” SpiritualArtistForceHeavenWalksVisionDivineGeniusConsciousEarsPaintChosenPainterVanityLandscapeUnconsciousUrgesAngleReal BeautyEmulation Author:Walter J. Phillips
“Generally there is in man a divinity which strives to push him onward and upward. We believe that this power within him is the spirit that comes from God. Man lived before he came to this earth, and he is here now to strive to perfect the spirit within. At sometime in his life, every man is conscious of a desire to come in touch with the Infinite. His spirit reaches out for God. This sense of feeling is universal, and all men ought to be, in deepest truth, engaged in the same great work—the search for and the development of spiritual peace and freedom.” MenBelieveFeelingsEarthSpiritualSpiritDesirePerfectDevelopmentOughtConsciousUniversalInfiniteStriveEvery ManEngagedDivinityReach OutStrifeGreat WorkSpiritual PeaceOnward And Upward Author:David
“Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.” MenPersonsSelfCharacterBodySpiritualConsciousConversionUnconsciousSelf ConsciousIndividualization Book:Character and characteristic men Source: Character and characteristic men
“If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,--a horrid thought!” IfsFeelsShouldReasonWould BeSpiritualLawUnderstandingMemoriesHellEqualConsciousMadnessFancyAnarchyOur MemoriesSpiritual Beings Author:John Milton
“The idea of suicide, understandable as it is, does not seem commendable to me. We live in order to gain the greatest possible amount of spiritual development and self-awareness. As long as life is possible, even if only in a minimal degree, you should hang onto it, in order to scoop it up for the purpose of conscious development. To interrupt life before its time is to bring to a standstill an experiment which we have not set up. We have found ourselves in the midst of it and must carry it through to the end.” IfsShouldLongDoeIdeasEndsSelfSeemsSpiritualLife IsPurposeOrderFoundAwarenessDevelopmentAmountDegreesConsciousGainsSelf AwarenessSuicideExperimentsMidstSpiritual DevelopmentStandstillCommendable Author:Carl Jung
“I don't believe there are any powers, which in the larger sense, are unnatural or even supernatural. I think we just do not yet scientifically understand all of the powers inherent in the human consciousness, and the more attuned we are to the realm of spirit, the more our conscious mind is available to subconscious, spiritual prompting.” ThinkingMindBelieveHumansSpiritualSpiritConsciousnessConsciousDon't BelieveAvailableRealmsInherentSubconsciousUnnaturalHuman ConsciousnessConscious Mind Author:Marianne Williamson
“But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense, the more dogmatically they are asserted and the more deceitful, moralizing and spiritual becomes the language of established society.” SpiritualLanguageCommonClassIllusionConsciousCommon SenseRulingDeceitfulMoralizing Author:Karl Marx
“Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available.” PeopleSelfProblemSeemsSpiritualSpiritualityTermMillionsConsciousFellowsAtheistIllnessAvailableMental IllnessDeceptionMysticismFraudElsewhereMysticalSelf Deception Author:Sam Harris
“One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no organized determination to think things out. What is there is a highly self-conscious and insipid correctness, a bloodless respectability submergence of matter in manner--in brief, what is there is the feeble, uninspiring quality of German painting and English music.” ThinkingSelfMatterSpiritualPassionLiteratureQualityPaintingAdventureIntellectualConsciousDeterminationBraveNobleOrganizedSelf ConsciousCorrectnessRespectabilityAmerican LiteratureEarnestnessInsipidUninspiringEnglish Music Book:H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series
“If you are not grieving, you are not conscious. But if you are not rejoicing in the possibilities of how this could all change, then you are not looking through the filter of the greatest spiritual perspicacity.” IfsSpiritualPossibilityConsciousGrievingRejoiceFilters Author:Marianne Williamson
“In an evolutionary context, the goal of the spiritual life is not peace; it's perpetual development. Evolutionary enlightenment is about the ecstasy that compels us to create the future. And it's not a future that's going to unfold by itself while we go back to sleep. It's a future that we forge the hard way through direct, conscious, intentional engagement with the life-process itself.” WayHardSpiritualLife IsSpiritualityProcessGoalSleepDevelopmentEnlightenmentConsciousDirectEcstasyEngagementSpiritual LifePerpetualHard Way Author:Andrew Cohen