Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

Some lessons take years to learn, with repeated exposure to the same path sometimes shadowed by the inner conscience of own souls. But eventually we learn, and our journey continues in another direction.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

Sometimes I was so busy being tuned in to outside ideas, expectations, and demands, I failed to hear the unique music in my soul. I forfeited my ability to listen creatively to my deepest self, to my own God within.

If you connect with a greater part of yourself, I call it higher self, but that's an experience, and when you do this, knowledge comes in, including intuition, and it's always about, 'What's my heart's sole desire?'

In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.

The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.

Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.

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.

I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I'm here to support the human evolution.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.