Transcendence gets you beyond ego. If you go beyond ego, you see all of this in a more decent perspective and you can start to put all the pieces together. We haven’t done that yet. Not as a civilization.
Edgar Mitchell. www.azquotes.com
Weekly Pause & Ponder
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
Weekly Pause & Ponder
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
Weekly Pause & Ponder
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.
Weekly Pause & Ponder
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.