To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don’t be concerned with dessert.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

I’m actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

Never take anything for granted.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

I’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

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.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

God to me is love.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.