Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

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.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

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

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Pray, and let God worry.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

I just want to lobby for God.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.