Sacred Awareness Quotes

The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God. Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.

There isn't a certain time we should set aside to talk about God. God is part of our every waking moment

Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.

With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain.

How do we allow God into our minds, bodies, relationships, and life? We stop squeezing the divine out through our preconceived notions of what is sacred and what is profane. When we assume the mind-set that everything is ultimately divine, though sometimes more disguised than others, then we can see that all of our thoughts, impulses, and desires arise from and can bring us back to awareness of the sacred.

Most kids have an innate feeling of the sense of God and spirit. But either we forget about it over time, or we're scared away from it.

Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.

Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred.

The history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred. The history of religions can play an extremely important role in the crisis we are living through. The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.