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“When we become spiritually aware—through synchronicity, for example—it’s a sign that despite the uncertainty, we are aligned with the force of life.”
― Lisa Miller, The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life

“If I can just make it through x, y, z…,” then I can advance, then I can rest, then I can be happy.”
― Lisa Miller, The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life

“achieving brains, chasing down sensible goals—of advancement, protection—that would not fulfill us, that would cultivate stress and fear and disconnection, because outward goals are no substitute for larger meaning and purpose.”
― Lisa Miller, The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life

“person’s degree of spirituality is determined 29 percent by heredity, and 71 percent by environment. Our spirituality is substantially—roughly two-thirds—a factor of how we’re raised, the company we keep, the things we do to build the muscle. But still a significant degree of our capacity to experience the sacred and transcendent—one-third—is inscribed in our genetic code, as innate as our eye color or fingerprints.”
― Lisa Miller, The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life

“enhanced perception of synchronicity goes hand in hand with increased spiritual awareness—and with better mental health. The more we practice engaging with open awareness, the more we are able to perceive synchronicity. And as we see synchronicity, we become more spiritually oriented—more aware of guidance, connection, and unity in our lives.”
― Lisa Miller, The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life

“We can see our choices and the consequences of our actions through a lens of interconnectedness and shared responsibility. And we can learn to tap into a larger field of awareness that puts us in better touch with our inner resources, with one another, and with the fabric of all life.”
― Lisa Miller, The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life

“We end up in bubbles with very narrow bands of language and experience that too often slip into individualistic self-interest,” Shriver says. “You talk to people who know and like you and think like you, and you don’t talk to other people. It’s a pursuit of safety and belonging that is more likely to be a recipe for loneliness and fear that is too often directed against some other. And sadly, the narrower the bubbles we live in, the more that fear and hatred of others grow, making the work of justice and peace almost impossible.”
― Lisa Miller, The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life

“Synchronicity—when two apparently disparate events are joined at the level of meaning or consciousness—seemed like an accessible way to illuminate and validate those sparks of inner knowing, those flashes of meaning or insight that seem to arrive out of the blue.”
― Lisa Miller, The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life

“Synchronicities had taught me to notice what was coming into my awareness or field of vision and to lean into what life was showing me. I’d experienced a personal relationship with a surprising transcendent presence. And I’d shifted away from the mentality of trying to fix the world to fit my preference and desire, and into a mental framework through which the world appeared loving and guiding. Most important, I sensed that I was in dialogue with that loving, guiding universe”
― Lisa Miller, The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life

“Synchronicity was building on synchronicity. It was as though perceiving synchronicity once, with the orphan on TV, and then again with the mama duck, had opened the way to perceiving more and more synchronicities. I had the sensation that, just as in an archetypal quest, I was becoming open, ever so gradually, to the guidance of helpers and healers on my journey.”
― Lisa Miller, The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life

“of life.”
― Lisa Miller, The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life

“What happens when we learn—or relearn—how to validate our perceptions as real? To trust ourselves to know in many forms? Synchronicity—when two apparently disparate events are joined at the level of meaning or consciousness—seemed like an accessible way to illuminate and validate those sparks of inner knowing, those flashes of meaning or insight that seem to arrive out of the blue.”
― Lisa Miller, The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life

“Parenting is hard and spirituality is a tough topic to tackle with fewer resources if you don’t have a handle on it yourself. This is the question so many parents feel with such great urgency: What should I do and how should I do it?”
― Lisa Miller, The Spiritual Child: The New Science on Parenting for Health and Lifelong Thriving