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Every day we have a choice. We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road sometimes based on a dream of a past that never was, fear of each other, distancing and blame, or we can take the much more difficult path, the road of transformation, transcendence, compassion, and love, but also accountability and justice.
Jacqueline Novogratz. www.azquotes.com
It’s easy to forget what an amazing gift life really is. Our lives are nothing but a cosmic blink. Even our seemingly all-encompassing world is just a tiny blue dot circling an average sized star spiraling around a galaxy of 200-400 billion stars, which itself is one galaxy among billions more. Yet for one brief moment, we get to experience the wonders of existence, of consciousness.
Positive Quotes About Life. www.keepinspiring me.com
Life in the widest sense is what humans experience and live for. But what is a truly human life? All life needs tending, nurturing, caring for, and human life especially requires physical, mental, moral, and spiritual care for body, mind, spirit, and soul. That means human life needs spirituality like the body needs breath and blood to flourish. …zest for life shows itself in the development of a more integrated, stronger global community that will give priority to promoting more equality, justice and peace as well as a planetary ethic. Humanity is at the crossroads; it cannot be considered simply as a state that has been reached but must be approached “as a work that has to be done.”
From Teilh’ard to Omega,
Ch. 11, The Zest for Life by Ursula King, pp.191 & 199.
It is more accurate to say that life “ever is” rather than “ever lasting.” Life exists in an ever-present state. It is … never destroyed. Life continually evolves itself, expressing in various dimensions, forms and conditions. Our view of life is too often limited to the particular expressions that we witness in the world, remaining oblivious to its eternally present nature that supersedes all physical, mental, and material forms.
Enlightened Consciousness: Entering New Dimensions of Spiritual Awareness, by Griff O’Brian, p. 82.
In these postmodern times a ‘seismic shift’ in experience of God seems to be taking place, one which ‘supports and strengthens prophetic and contemplative consciousness.’ Wisdom-Sophia, a life giving God-image for many women, gives us the ability to discern the source and terminus of our desires. She invites us to be at home in our bodies and in the body of God which is the created world. She awakens in us the power to speak freely and act boldly to help make God’s dream come true. Women’s spiritual writings of the past decade reveal that, subtly and insistently, God is indeed shaping us into contemplatives and prophets. And we who embody her life ‘cannot keep from speaking about what we have heard.’ (Acts 4:20)
Embodying God’s life: Women and spirituality by Regina Bechtle, SC of New York. www.theway.org.uk
