Maya Angelou Quotes

The first requisite for immortality is death.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

The spiritual self of each of us is that part of us that will never grow old, or ill, or die, but it must be nurtured and invigorated!

Death is not just the end, it's the beginning.

I think having near-death experiences, they sure made me free.

All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.

Is sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; it is only the first gift of the first awakening. If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life - the one that did not work - for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever.

Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.

I’ve often said that I wish people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame, so that they could see that it’s not where they’re gonna find their sense of completion. Like many of you, I was concerned about going out into the world and doing something bigger than myself, until someone smarter than myself made me realize that there is nothing bigger than myself. My soul is not contained within the limits of my body, my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

Harry taught me that death isn't the end, it's the beginning.

Before my death I hope to obtain my life.

What is human is immortal!

Disabused of our illusions by much travel and travail, we awaken one day to find that the sacred center is here and now - in every moment of the journey, everywhere in the world around us, and deep within our own hearts.

The commitment to love always transforms, heals, and opens new avenues of creativity.

Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out.

That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.