Max Heindel Quotes

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful.

Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit.

The tree has been always an allegory for spiritual growth.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.

The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

In my new book, 'Birth,' my goal is to share the path I have traveled in the spiritual sphere and in the business and philanthropic sphere in order to reveal the essential connection between the two.

I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you've bought all your houses and your clothes, you want something bigger.

The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

Lent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy. It's a time to look what our instinctual needs are, look at what the dynamics of our unconscious are.

I don't think I have spiritual beliefs in the structured sense - but I believe in the absolute necessity of spirit and a healthy spiritual life. It grew inside me by itself, which is surely the very nature of spirit, and instinctively I protected and nourished it. I also absorbed spirituality by osmosis.

A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

Physically, I've seen a change in my life. No, I haven't had a face lift or anything like that. I've grown. That's God's countenance.