Wendell Berry Quotes

Devotion begins at home, inside your own awareness.

I spent many years seeking self-awareness and wondering what I should be doing on this planet.

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.

Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.

Meditation is a good starting point, or even a little bit of contemplative reflection, asking questions like: Who am I without my name or form? What is my purpose if there is one? What do I want out of my life? What am I grateful for? Just a little bit of reflection like that starts you on the journey.

My advice to you is not to undertake the spiritual path. It is too difficult, too long, and is too demanding. I suggest you ask for your money back, and go home. This is not a picnic. It is really going to ask everything of you. So, it is best not to begin. However, if you do begin, it is best to finish.

The experiences are so innumerable and varied, that the journey appears to be interminable and the Destination is ever out of sight. But the wonder of it is, when at last you reach your Destination you find that you had never travelled at all! It was a journey from here to Here.

If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God.

Find the journey's end in every step.

The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself. I do not consider myself a voyager, I have preferred to stand still.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

I'm always soul searching on a spiritual level.

The only journey is the one within.

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

Since 2005, I have been on a steadfast journey inward as a self-proclaimed Spirit Junkie. And I've never looked back.

Prince didn't want to celebrate birthdays but to live life, to elevate and educate to the next level of enlightenment.

I'd be lying to you if I said I had not done some soul searching.