Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think the divine is like a huge smile that breaks somewhere in the sea within you, and gradually comes up again.
From the beginning, the sensation of the marvelous presupposes faith.
Awakenings occur when we lose faith in the viability of our institutions and the authority of our leaders. Religious and spiritual awakening gives people a new vision of themselves, which is then transplanted into social action.
Those who seek the divine want to make this world a better place, which first requires that we communicate.
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
It is a law in the universe that a wave of spiritual awakening is always followed by a period of doubting materialism, each phase is necessary in order that the spirit may receive equal development of heart and intellect without being carried too far in either direction.
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within.
Christianity is not about the divine becoming human so much as it is about the human becoming divine. That is a paradigm shift of the first order.
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