Menachem Mendel Schneerson Quotes

God has a plan for you - I can promise you that. Your life is sacred. There is and always has been a path for your soul, and if you follow that path, it will lead you to the inner utopia that your soul longs to experience in this lifetime.

God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking.

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.

Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.

God created me to delight people with my goals.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I'm on course, and I'm doing what God wants me to do. I'm real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

You have to make time and tend to things that are important in your life so you can live the life of blessing God has promised you!

Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate.

As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be.

If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.

You don't have to believe anything, adopt a dogma in order to learn how to meditate.

The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.

Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race.

God's will for your life is God's will for today, and it doesn't get any more glamorous than that.

I meditate and I'm passionate about it.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.