Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.

With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.

Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.

When one's eyes are anointed with the salve of prema, spiritual love then we could see Vrindavan.

If Christians are ever to be united, they must be united in Christ, their living head and the source of their spiritual life.

The children of God have more in common then they have differences.

Passion is present when a man can distinguish between the wine and the container. Two men see a loaf of bread. One hasn't eaten anything for ten days. The other has eaten five times a day, every day. He sees the shape of the loaf. The other man with his urgent need sees inside into the taste, and into the nourishment the bread could give. Be that hungry, to see within all beings the Friend.

We must have a spiritual rebirth. We must be born out of the belief in externalities into the belief of inner realities, out of the belief that we are separated from God, into the belief that we are part of a Unitary Wholeness.

There is really no difference between matter, mind and Spirit. They are only different phases of experiencing the One.

To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when if it would but clothe itself with a few carnal advantages, how apparent it is to them! They can see it through a little cranny.

God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.

When you focus with soul eyes, / You will see home in many, many places.

Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others

There's a big difference between oneness and sameness. Oneness implies that we're all connected and that we all come from the same source. Sameness implies that we all have to do things and exactly think the same way as everybody else does.

We try to realize the essential unity of the world with the conscious soul of man; we learn to perceive the unity held together by the one Eternal Spirit, whose power creates the earth, the sky, and the stars, and at the same time irradiates our mind.

Subtle astral colors... are hidden in everything around you. Could you but see, you would be amazed at their beauty.

The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world.

I do have a clear vision, and I do see things that are existing in my quote-unquote spirit, but that doesn't necessary make me a very spiritual person.

When the kirtan is harmonious with so many people, it’s a tumultuous beautiful sound. We can’t hear just one voice during the chorus; or rather we do hear one voice. But that one voice is actually the sound of everyone’s voice in harmony. That’s our offering to God. And why is it so pleasing to the Lord? Because we are all cooperating for a higher purpose. We are all united for the pleasure of the center, for the pleasure of Krishna, in spite of all our differences.

I don't really see a conflict between the church and the movies, the sacred and the profane...there are major differences, but I could also see great similarities...Both are places for people to come together and share.

This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants.

As believers we all have an opportunity and moral obligation to recognize our spiritual common ground; to rise above our differences; to combat prejudice and intolerance.

Wherever there is evil and wherever there is ignorance and want of knowledge, I have found out by experience that all evil comes, as our scriptures say, relying upon differences, and that all good comes from faith in equality, in the underlying sameness and oneness of things. This is the great Vedantic ideal.