Freya Stark Quotes

Every day can be like Christmas in its love and its peace if our hearts open up and make room for love. The holy child is waiting to be born in every instant, not just once a year.

There's a little Christmas in all of us, I guess. Even in me.

Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart: like a nursery story, its validity rests on exact repetition, so that it comes around every time as the evocation of one's whole life and particularly of the most distant bits of it in childhood.

Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.

When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature. All of us love. All of us do it more and more perfectly. The past has brought us both ashes and diamonds. In the present we find the flowers of what we've planted and the seeds of what we are becoming. I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.

There must be an angel, Playing with my heart. And when I think that I'm alone, It seems there's more of us at home...

Our Higher Self is the most intimate thing we could possibly know; eternity is the most comfortable home we could possibly fine.

God is actually inside. He lives in our hearts.

Nothing less than the majesty of God, and the powers of the world to come, can maintain the peace and sanctity of our homes, the order and serenity of our minds, the spirit of patience and tender mercy in our hearts. Then will even the merest drudgery of duty cease to humble us, when we transfigure it by the glory of our own spirit.

Love is not found in the market.

There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.

This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were commonly found on the wall in the homes of devout persons need to be etched on our hearts: Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.

It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.

Love is never outside ourselves; love is within us.

The coming of Jesus at Bethlehem brought joy to the world and to every human heart. may His coming this Christmas bring to each one of us that peace and joy that He desires to give.

The true state of the union lies in your heart, and in your home.

Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.

When I pray, I'm just talking to what some people might call our higher selves: God, myself, my intuition, my heart. Whatever that is, that's where I go.

Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.

I've got you deep in the heart of me.

The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.

The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

One opens the inner doors of one's heart to the infinite silences of the Spirit, out of whose abysses love wells up without fail and gives itself to all.

Our heart always transcends us.

Within my heart is carved a sculpture of your love.