John Chrysostom Quotes

True affluence is to not need anything.

To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

The less you need, the more you attract.

Just after I dedicated my life to service, I felt that I could no longer accept more than I need while others in the world have less than they need. This moved me to bring my life down to need level. I thought it would be difficult. I thought it would entail a great many hardships, but I was quite wrong. Instead of hardships, I found a wonderful sense of peace and joy, and a conviction that unnecessary possessions are only unnecessary burdens.

Enjoy everything. Need nothing.

When you find peace within, you also find that you can do without. This means simply that you no longer need the things of your outside world, and not needing is a great freedom.

Those who need nothing attract everything.

We need to develop a sense of sufficiency to be happy.

We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity.

The treasure we seek requires no lengthy expedition, no expensive equipment, no superior aptitude or special company. All we lack is the willingness to imagine that we already have everything we need. The only thing missing is our consent to be where we are.

With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.

He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

Be close enough to people so that you are indifferent to the material. And also have faith.

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.

The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla

In my life, what I want and what I need are exactly the same. Anything in excess of needs is burdensome to me. You couldn't give me anything I don't need. I am penniless, but have difficulty remaining so. Several of my well meaning, well-to-do friends have offered me large sums of money, which I of course refused.

My belief is that to have no wants is divine.

There is no promise of love and light or visions of any kind - no angels, no devils. Nothing happens: it is absolutely boring. Sometimes you feel silly. One often asks the question, "Who is kidding whom? Am I on to something or not?" You are not on to something. Traveling the path means you get off everything, there is no place to perch. Sit and feel your breath, be with it.

Money, success, and the external trappings have chased after me wherever I have gone. These things show up in my life, and I just keep passing them on. I don't hang onto them myself at all. I have very few needs like that.

The more you know, the less you need.

I’ve stripped my life down,” he told me. “I don’t need much. I have all the company I want to keep right in here.” He shot himself in the head with his fingers. “People don’t understand about the need to live simply. They make appointments all day. They even schedule their own deaths. The first time they’ll have freedom to really be themselves is when they no longer exist. But up here, there’s nothing but me and the sky. A million billion stars.

Who is content with nothing possesses all things.

Diogenes found more rest in his tub than Alexander on his throne.

Only when he has ceased to need things can a man truly be his own master and so really exist.

Open your arms as wide as you can to receive all the miracles with your name on them. Never forget that all you have is all you need.