Quotes about Consciousness

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

After I wake up, I always meditate.

When I meditate, I can feel an energy that is much bigger than me but is also part of me, and it's a very powerful energy.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

Meditation isn't necessarily this magical experience where we don't ever have thoughts.

Ignoring our emotions is turning our back on reality; listening to our emotions ushers us into reality. And reality is where we meet God … Emotions are the language of the soul. They are the cry that gives the heart a voice … However, we often turn a deaf ear — through emotional denial, distortion, or disengagement. We strain out anything disturbing in order to gain tenuous control of our inner world. We are frightened and ashamed of what leaks into our consciousness.

Lewis Smedes sums up the dangers of superficial forgiveness: "We will not take healing action against unfair pain until we own the pain we want to heal. It is not enough to feel pain. We need to appropriate the pain we feel: Be conscious of it, take it on, and take it as our own … I worry about fast forgivers. They tend to forgive quickly in order to avoid their pain.

God thinks. You think. God wills. You will. God feels. You feel.

Ignoring our emotions is turning our back on reality.

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