I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

I love life because what more is there?

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker – yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.

I don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

If you give, you will be blessed.

God always takes the simplest way.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Because in a split second, it’s gone.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

I’ve been very fortunate.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

For greed all nature is too little.

We think too much and feel too little.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.