Spiritual Art Blog - *Ed P

Dreamer

I’ve now added a few characters below the figures from past lives. These characters are lads we meet occasionally in our dreams which sometimes become nightmares. They don’t usually figure that prominently in our dreams which is why they are faded and not strong images.

How to see the other side of life

Thought for the Week

Many people feel they are a victim of life, especially when they look at all the problems, challenges and difficulties thrown at them. If we can see the other side of life we begin to see how our life is organized and how we can work with it.

What is the other side of life? It is our inner life. Our inner life is not something foreign to us, we are using it all the time. Our inner life is made up of our emotions, memories, mind, intuition and the happy part of ourselves, Soul. That’s what our inner worlds consist of and the inner worlds of all the people around us.

A wonderful system
If we look at our emotions we can see lots of them. Happy, sad, angry, calm, warm, cold, welcoming, hostile, and all the variations in between them. Our memories are even more extensive, spanning our lives from childhood to now. We have memories of friends, family, school mates, work colleagues and people we've met on the street. Some even have memories from other lifetimes. Let’s not forget all that we've read, been taught, observed, experienced and lived through. All these are filed away in our memory.

Then we have the mind. For a lot of people this is the basis of our world. The mind has a wonderful system which bases all its calculations on logic. Based on logic the human race has achieved a number of significant things throughout history. Mathematics, a logical system has led to the development of commerce between nations. It is the starting point for all engineering work, which in recent times has led to putting a man on the moon and produced such facilities as mobile phones and the internet.

Subtle messages
A lot of this mental and logical stuff wouldn't have happened without the intervention of our intuition, our subconscious. We get a lot of excellent ideas and suggestions from our intuition on how to solve problems and meet challenges. These are often subtle messages which the mind often grabs and applies its logic to.

The next level within us is Soul, the true happy part of us. It is very subtle and often gets drowned out by the noise, opinions and logical solutions of the mind. The emotions also play a part in drowning out Its advice and suggestions. For these reasons It is often referred to as "the still small voice" within us. Because of the "noise" coming from the other parts of ourselves many of us miss the wisdom and advice we can access from Soul. When we miss these messages we miss our connection to the other side of life. 

How can we connect with the other side of life?
Hints, nudges, feelings that something is right or wrong, a series of coincidences, a message which stands out for us from the radio, TV or other media. These are occurring all the time. We may pick up some of them but we need to bring up our awareness of them to get an insight into the other side of life. How can we validate our inner thoughts and experiences and increase our awareness? Here are a few ideas…

Keeping a Journal
Keeping a journal is an excellent way of validating our inner thoughts and experiences. If we keep a note of the feelings, hints and nudges we get, we can use our notes to check back on them at a  later date. We can see what did happen and compare our earlier feelings about the situation. If we were right our notes will help confirm and validate our inner feelings. If we were wrong we can see how we went wrong and how we got the wrong meaning from the signs we picked up. Over time and with some practice, we will begin to get in tune with the messages we receive and we’ll begin to open the curtain to the other side of life.

Contemplating on our thoughts
Contemplating on our thoughts and ideas is an excellent way of exploring our inner worlds. By taking some time to lightly consider events, situations and ideas which we come across in our lives, we are beginning to look into the other side of life. As we wonder about the things in our life we will see other sides and different angles on situations. We’ll get insights and understandings which will help us cope with and deal with the events in our lives. As we notice these insights we should take notes in our journal so that we do not loose them and we can commit them to our memory for use later. 

Acting on inner recommendations
The next step is to begin to test the ideas and insights we receive from the other side of life. We start small with one or two minor ideas to see if they work. We could see if a nudge to go in a different direction to our usual route brings any surprises. We try and idea which popped into our head as we worked on a project, to see if it brings any new solutions.  We could add a new ingredient to our usual recipe to see if adds a new flavour to our meal. We could contact the person who just came to mind for no particular reason and share how things are in life at the moment. 

As we try these out, we’ll begin to gain more confidence in the insights we are receiving. After a while we’ll begin to see how the other side of life operates in our regular life. As our confidence in the hints, nudges and intuitions we receive grow, we will begin to see more and more of the other side of life. We are becoming more aware all the time. 

Welcome to the other side of life.

 

*Ed Parkinson

Inspirational Life Quotes

“Life is a very real dream world. Everywhere we go is a spiritual occasion.”
 Harold Klemp

“Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.”
 Albert Einstein

“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.”
 James Dean

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
 Maria Robinson

“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”
 Ashley Smith

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
 Howard Thurman

“The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.”
 Tom Bodett

 “Life is too important to be taken seriously.”
 Oscar Wilde

“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.”
 Flora Whittemore

“The most important things in life aren't things.”
 Anthony J. D'Angelo

 “I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.”
 Zelda Fitzgerald

“Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.”
John N. Mitchell 

“Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.”
 Keri Russell

“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
 John W. Gardner

“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”
 Buddha 

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”
Sandra Carey

“Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.”
Horace

Dreamer

I’ve been working on the people up the river of the Dreamer who represent past lives and relationships as well as a guiding master. Here’s a close up of the area.

How we can survive disasters

Thought for the Week
Whether it's an earthquakes, family upheaval or financial ruin, there are ways we can survive disasters. We humans have great survival instincts. We can survive most things. Better still, we have an element deep within us which will survive forever and that element is Soul.

We Souls will survive everything. This part of ourselves will survive all the disasters we can possibly think of. Our physical body may die. Our emotions may go through storms and turmoil. Our mind and memory may only see devastation around us. However our core essence, Soul, will survive all these disasters and will brighten our world with its light of love.

Our true essence
If we die and drop our physical body, then ignore our emotions, forget our memories, dismiss our mind, we are left with our true essence Soul. When we loose all the stuff that gives us pain and anguish we are left with the happy, loving part of ourselves. This is the part that will survive all things, all troubles and all time.

To go through loosing everything can be very traumatic. Is there a way of making it easier to get to this Soul awareness without having to go through the disasters? Thankfully there is. We need to bring up our awareness of this divine element within ourselves, Soul. We need to reconnect with it, tap into its wisdom and recognise its advice and nudges. Here are a few techniques we can use to reclaim our divine essence.

Live in the moment
To live in the moment is one of the key ways of surviving all kinds of disasters. By dealing with life on a moment by moment basis we handle one thing at a time. We base our judgements on what we know now and what we can do now. We do the best we can with what we have now and let Life do the as It will. As Soul only lives in the moment, by practicing this we begin to take on this quality of Soul and tap into Its awareness of the moment. 

Attitude of gratitude
Be grateful for what we do have. As we look around our world and its perceived devastation, we may have to work to find something to be grateful for, something we can appreciate. If we cannot see anything, we can try holding your breath and pinching our nose for a full minute. We’ll be grateful when we release our nose and are able to breathe again. 

If we can read this or hear it being read to us, we still have our eyesight and/or hearing. We can make a list of all the things we are grateful for. This act of writing will help move our mind from its depressed state into realising the number of gifts we can be grateful for. It will begin to see light in the darkness.

HU Song
Another method of connecting with our true essence, Soul, is to use the HU Song. HU, which sounds like the word hue, has similar vibrations to Soul and helps us reconnect with It at Its vibration. By singing HU on our outgoing breath for fifteen to twenty minutes, each day, will help us re-establish our link with Soul. We then begin to access Its wisdom which comes to us via our intuition, creativity and synchronicity. 

Change of attitude
If we can change our attitude from one of being a victim of whatever disastrous situation we find ourselves in to asking, Why is this happening FOR me? We are now taking charge of our situation and looking for the lessons we need to learn to move on and out of our current position.

So how we can survive disasters? By living in the moment, being grateful for what we do have, practicing the HU Song as we contemplate or meditate and changing our attitude so we go with the flow of Life and learn for its lessons.

Wishing you Love on our journey through Life.


*Ed Parkinson

Inspirational Survival Quotes

“This is a warring universe. To survive here, one must know its ways.”
 Harold Klemp

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
 Charles Darwin

“Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway.”
 Anon

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”
 Dalai Lama

“It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.”
 Robert H. Schuller

“One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.”
 Oscar Wilde

“Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.”
 Sun Tzu

“Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.”
 Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.”
 Dr. Carl Sagan

“Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.”
 Bertrand Russell

“Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.”
 Robertson Davies

“A people without faith in themselves cannot survive.”
 Chinese Proverb

“You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.”
 Bill Cosby

“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”
 Bruce Lee

“If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.”
 Kahlil Gibran

“At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.”
 Joseph Campbell

“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”
 Aristotle

Dreamer

There was an area on the top left of the picture which up to now has just been filled with a blue sky. Some interesting clouds have arrived.

Our conversation with Life

Thought for the Week
As we go about our lives moving from one event or situation to the next, we don’t get much of a chance to see what Life is saying to us. We can get so caught up in doing stuff that we become blind to our conversation with Life.

This conversation only becomes apparent when we begin to look at life and wonder why things are the way they are. How come we are in this set of circumstances and not another? What is life about, what’s its purpose? These questions generally come after a major upset to our ‘normal’ life. They can also come during a time of retreat, where we allow ourselves time to contemplate and reflect on our direction and the spiritual aspects of our lives.

How does Life talk to us?
If we consider that the Life-force is operating all the things in our lives, such as, the galaxies, our planet, the air we breath, the water and food we consume, the weather, the timing of events, etc., we can see that It is everywhere in our lives. We operate our physical movements, our emotions, our mind and how it thinks, our intuition and how we interpret it, our true happy self Soul and how we let it shine into our lives. We control our selves and our interactions with the world around us. The Life-force orchestrates the other Souls in our world and steers us to areas that will benefit our growth as spiritual beings.

As the Life-force plays Its melody around us, it will use instruments like, coincidences, happy accidents, reoccurring messages, symbols, series of events or situations, challenges, pleasures, pains and other Souls to try to get us in tune with It and become aware of Its conversation with us. These worlds where we exist are a training ground for Soul to become more aware of Itself and its Godlike qualities. The Life-force or Holy Spirit is playing Its music and would love us to join in and add our instrument, Soul, to its melody.

How do we tune into Life?
The first thing we need to do is realise that there is a force or power outside ourselves which maintains the world in which we exist. Once we accept that there is a Life-force we can begin to search for ways to communicate with and understand It. There are several way we can begin to join in with the melody of Life.

Appreciation
If we can appreciate all the things in our lives, both good and bad, we begin to see how life plays out. We begin to have a more detached view of our lives. By our appreciation of the good things in our lives, our heart opens and love flows through us. Our appreciation of the ‘bad’ things opens a new viewpoint where we are willing to consider a benefit we may receive. 

Be prepared to learn
Similar to appreciation is being prepared to learn something from every event, situation and person we encounter. With this attitude we are opening ourselves to the possibility of a positive if challenging outcome. We are now prepared to go with the flow of life and learn from the situations we find ourselves in.

Contemplation
We should take time for contemplation every day so that we can get an overview of the things in our lives. We should try and allow ourselves fifteen to twenty minutes quiet time every day. In this time we can wonder about things and daydream of different possibilities for the things on our lives.

HU song
Singing the HU song during our contemplations will help us connect with the higher, happier part of ourselves, Soul. As we begin to connect with Soul, more love and wisdom will flow into our lives. Soul is our source of love and happiness and by regularly connecting with it via the HU song and contemplation we naturally bring its essence into our lives.

Keep notes in a journal
As we begin to tune into and become aware of our conversation with Life, it can be worthwhile to keep notes in a journal. These notes will help us realise the reality of our ongoing conversation with life. We could list the things we appreciate in life, the things we’ve learned, the observations or insights we received during contemplation or how Soul gave us wisdom to see things differently.

Symphony of Life
Using these tools we begin to tune into the melody of Life. As we go with the flow of Life our lives become more harmonious. We begin to see how we fit into the world around us and how we can play our part in the symphony of Life. While there may still be difficulties in our lives we do have a better awareness of how Life works and how we can tune into It. We are no longer a victim of life but one of the instruments playing our part in the symphony of Life.

Wishing you well as you add your tune to the symphony of Life.

*Ed Parkinson

People’s Art Exhibition, St. Stephens green, Dublin, Ireland

News
On the 20th, 21st and 22nd of August, this coming weekend, the People’s Art Exhibition will take place on St. Stephens Green, Dublin 2, Ireland. It is always a creative and colourful affair and if the weather is nice it is a good place to spend some time enjoying the art and artists of Ireland. I’ll be there on the Green and hopefully I’ll see you there too.
The video below is from one of last years exhibitions.

Inspirational Conversation & Life Quotes

“This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.”
 Tina Turner 

“Throughout the day, contemplate on all the blessings in your life. The power of gratitude opens the heart to allow love to enter. But once the love comes in and we receive the gifts of Divine Spirit and life, the way to keep the gifts flowing is to be grateful.”
 Harold Klemp

“I would make my job a work of art. I would like whatever it is that I'm doing - everyone's experience of me, everyone's interaction with me, everyone's discussion, conversation, relationship with me - [to be] an event within which they get to see who they are. I would make of my life a work of art.”
 John Denver

“There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.”
 James Nathan Miller 

“Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.”
 Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies.”
 John Cleese 

“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
 Dorothy Nevill 

“Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.”
 Kin Hubbard 

“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.”
 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

“It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.”
 Agnes Repplier 

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”
 Oscar Wilde

“To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation”
 Chinese Proverb

“It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, nor the amount of religious conversation in which you mix, but it is the frequency and earnestness with which you meditate on these things until the truth in them becomes you.”
 Frederick W. Robertson

“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”
 Edward Gibbon 

“For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation”
 Plato 

“Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know”
 Andre Maurois

Dreamer

This picture Dreamer is progressing slowly. I was a little busy last week which didn’t allow much time for working on the picture but I did get some work done on it. Here’s the latest update.

Inspirational Flow of Life Quotes

“Man wanders from the cradle to the grave, yet never knows his true destinationwhich is, not the tomb, but rather the discovery of himself as Soul which must eventually make its way back into the heavenly world again.”
 The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad

“It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, and it always comes with years, and the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through the tears.”
 Irish Sayings 

“Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.”
 George Harrison 

“There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.”
 Robert Lynd 

“Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.”
 Epictetus

“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”
 Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.”
 Mark Twain

"God's spirit is able to flow through us as we minister and teach others. You just never know what God is going to do with the people he has placed in your life."
 Allen Bach

“Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.”
 D.H. Lawrence

“Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.”
 Seneca 

“Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.”
 Sean O'Casey 

“Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.”
 Smiley Blanton

“Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters.”
Jose Saramago 

“To be religious is to have a life that flows with the presence of the extraordinary.”
 Ann Belford Ulanov 

“I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.”
 Shania Twain 

Dreamer

This picture Dreamer is coming along nicely. I’ve illustrated the river of dreams which ends up as pillow of sorts for the dreamer. 

The quick and easy way to get answers to life’s situations

Thought for the Week
Is there a quick and easy way to get answers to life’s situations? There are new ideas being presented to us on an ongoing basis. These can be related to our bodies, our thinking, our country, our lifestyle, our understanding, our relationships, etc. Some of these ideas and information are relevant to our current life, some have no affect on us at all. 

We can accept any of these ideas in two ways. We can believe whatever we are told or we can investigate what is behind the idea. If we believe what we are told and just accept the idea, we are really handing the control of that area of our lives to whoever gives us the information. If we need to confirm the information we have to research it and get other opinions on the subject. We cannot be expected to research every aspect of our lives but we need to know about the important things that affect us.

If we become aware that there is something needed or lacking in our lives, we begin to search for an answer. Once the answer arrives we need to accept it before it becomes part of our awareness. It would seem like we will need to learn a lot of stuff to get the information we need. How can we get what we need and not get overloaded with too much of it? 

The Divine part of ourselves
There is way we can get what need when we need it. The way is to use the Divine part of ourselves, Soul. Soul lives in the Divine worlds, where there is no time or space. Everything is now. The only time is now. If we can connect with Soul, It will give us what we need to know now. It has access to all our memories, intelligence, knowledge and whatever It can access in the Divine worlds. That means It knows everything now. We just need to learn how to connect with It, ask the right questions and be able to grasp the answer.

The first answer
As soon as we hit a problem or challenge, we search for an answer. The first answer will come immediately from Soul. It acts now. We need to train our mind to accept this answer and not go to work on it with its logic and then get a history of similar solutions from our memories with a final input from our emotions to give it warmth or coolness. When our mind gets a hold of the answer it will begin to examine it, make it fit into a particular opinion or logic it knows and then deliver its answer as the best one possible. The mind has now distorted the original answer. 

If we can grasp the first idea suggested by Soul, we will have a better and wiser answer to follow. From Soul’s perspective It can see how we fit into our lives and our interactions with other Souls. It has a much better viewpoint of our overall situation than our mind. This is why we need to try and grasp Soul’s answer before mind mangles it with its logic and opinions.

Connecting with Soul
One really effective way of connecting with Soul is to sing the mantra HU on a regular basis. It has been described as Soul’s love song to God, with good reason. If we can take about 15 or 20 minutes a day to do this we will slowly begin to reconnect with Soul. HU is a sound from Soul’s worlds and by chanting it regularly we begin to open a channel to Soul. 
 
How to sing HU
Here’s how to sing HU. We find a quiet place and time that suits us. It could be early in the morning or late in the evening or at a quiet time during the day. We make ourselves comfortable and on our outgoing breath we sing HU. While singing HU we should close our eyes and watch for light on our inner screen. It may come as a glow, sparkles, flashes or flowing lights. We can also listen for sounds around us and within us. Listen to the outer sounds first and then listen for a sound that may be in the background, a sound within ourselves. Our thoughts should start by thinking of someone or something we love which warms our heart. After a while ideas and events in our lives will drift past on our inner screen. Just observe them as they pass. You may see a different side of a situation or get insights as you watch them. 

Some our answers will come to us as we sit in contemplation singing HU. Other answers will come when needed. Grasping Soul’s answer before our mind gets it requires practice but we can do it. This is the quick and easy way to get answers to life’s situations. Many people use this method to live their lives and have a happier life under their Soul’s guidance than under the logical dictates of the mind. The mind is a great tool but a hard master. Soul is our source of love and a blessing to all aspects of our life.

Wishing a life blessed with Soul’s wisdom.

*Ed Parkinson

Inspirational Awareness and Understanding Quotes

“If you are a sincere seeker of truth, you realise that something within you is constantly pushing you from the nest. You know the answers you seek do exist somewhere in the world. This inner voice that pushes you to find the answers is an urge you have no control over. It is the call of Soul.”
 Harold Klemp

“A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.”
 T.S. Eliot 

"The well-fed does not understand the lean."
 Irish Proverb 

“It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.”
Paulo Coelho

“The minute a thing is long and complicated it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept but they are understood.”
 Will Rogers

“I liked things better when I didn't understand them.”
 Bill Watterson, author of the comic strip Calvin & Hobbes.

“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”
 Aristotle

“To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.”
 Eric Hoffer 

“Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.”
 James Thurber 

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

“The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.”
 Lao Tzu

“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”
 Nathaniel Branden 

“The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.”
 Thomas Merton

“Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.”
 Peace Pilgrim

“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.”
 M. Scott Peck 

“Although it is difficult to pinpoint the physical base or location of awareness, it is perhaps the most precious thing concealed within our brains. And it is something that the individual alone can feel and experience. Each of us cherishes it highly, yet it is private”
 Dalai Lama