The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

Ultimately love is everything.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Share our similarities celebrate our differences.

When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of community I have a dim sense that I am participating in a phenomenon for which there is only one word....glory.

Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or doubters or divorced or sinners or of some different race or nationality are not communities they are cliques actually defensive bastions against community.

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable unhappy or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments propelled by our discomfort that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom.

The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's growth.

The path to holiness lies through questioning everything.

The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.

The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace.

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness.

I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

When we fall asleep, we withdraw our awareness from its hypnotic fascination with physical sensation, thereby enabling us to listen with our now awakening sixth sense.

Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.

Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

Through educational programming, Jewish American History Month will help raise the awareness of a people, their history and contributions. It will help combat anti-Semitism, a phenomenon that is on the rise and that unfortunately still exists in our Nation.

In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.

In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.

I recently formed a foundation to raise awareness for prostate cancer. I feel it's very necessary that men be more aware about prostate cancer and their health in general.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.