Awe Quote by Michael Lerner

“Nothing is more contagious than genuine love and genuine care. Nothing is more exhilarating than authentic awe and wonder. Nothing is more exciting than to witness people having the courage to fight for their highest vision.” quote by Michael Lerner — Download Open image

“Nothing is more contagious than genuine love and genuine care. Nothing is more exhilarating than authentic awe and wonder. Nothing is more exciting than to witness people having the courage to fight for their highest vision.”

Michael Lerner

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings)

Awe Awe and wonder Care Contagious Dreams Exciting Exhilarating Fighting Genuine Genuine Care Genuine love Highest Love People Vision Witness Wonder

More by Michael Lerner

We need to build millions of little moments of caring on an individual level. Indeed, as talk of a politics of meaning becomes more widespread, many people will feel it easier to publicly acknowledge their own spiritual and ethical aspirations and will allow themselves to give more space to their highest vision in their personal interactions with others. A politics…

Michael Lerner

Instead of a bottom-line based on money and power, we need a new bottom-line that defines productivity and creativity as where corporations, governments, schools, public institutions, and social practices are judged as efficient, rational and productive not only to the extent they maximize money and power, but to the extent they maximize love and caring, ethical and ecological sensitivity, and…

Michael Lerner

Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that there is…

Michael Lerner

Image

Reality is much more complex than any judgment of right and wrong encourages you to believe. When you really understand the ethical, spiritual, social, economic, and psychological forces that shape individuals, you will see that people's choices are not based on a desire to hurt. Instead, they are in accord with what they know and what world views are available…

Michael Lerner

Ultimately, one of the best ways to take care of our souls is to build a society that supports rather than undermines our highest moral and spiritual intuitions and inclinations. Yet, building that society can never be divided from the daily practices through which we live out our ethical and spiritual lives, both in the way we treat others around…

Michael Lerner

Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society - one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity. Their…

Michael Lerner

Image

. . . the upsurge of Spirit is the only plausible way to stop the ecological destruction of our planet. Even people who have…

Michael Lerner

Image

...in place of the Old Bottom Line of money and power, a New Bottom Line of Love and Generosity is possible. People of all…

Michael Lerner

Image

This focus on money and power may do wonders in the marketplace, but it creates a tremendous crisis in our society. People who have spent all day learning how to sell themselves and to manipulate others are in no position to form lasting friendships or intimate relationships... Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society - one based on…

Michael Lerner

I seek peace, let me BE peace.

Michael Lerner

Image

Because religious institutions are not afraid to talk about love as a goal, they are likely to be more effective at providing community services.

Michael Lerner

Image

Corporations care very much about maintaining the myth that government is necessarily ineffective, except when it is spending money on the military-industrial complex, building…

Michael Lerner

Image

Explore all 14 Michael Lerner quotes

More Awe quotes

Because I've never had any higher education of any sort, I've never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense…

Jeremy Corbyn

Image

Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously,…

Aldous Huxley

Image

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it. Every single time you lift off the bone and open the durra and there it is - the human brain, the thing that gives a person a personality, that distinguishes each one of us, that there could be more than 6 billion of us here on this…

Benjamin Carson

“I know you deserve better than me. You think I don’t know that? But if there was any woman made for me … it’s…

Jamie McGuire

Image

There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief without the help of any other argument.

Thomas Gray

Image

As we contemplate with reverence and awe how our Savior embraces us, comforts us, and heals us, let us commit to become His hands,…

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Image

My journey deep into coma, outside this lowly physical realm and into the loftiest dwelling place of the almighty Creator, revealed the indescribably immense…

Eben Alexander

Image

Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship.

Anonymous

Image

“Everything we perceive to be solid and static is made up of almost entirely empty space.”

Joseph P. Kauffman

Image

“Oftentimes we call Life bitter names, but only when we ourselves are bitter and dark. And we deem her empty and unprofitable, but only when the soul goes wandering in desolate places, and the heart is drunken with overmindfulness of self. Life is deep and high and distant; and though only your vast vision can reach even her feet, yet…

Kahlil Gibran