John Nelson Darby Quotes

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.

Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.

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.

The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from.

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.

I went to America to convert the Indians, but, oh, who shall convert me? Who, what, is he that will deliver me from this evil heart of unbelief?

I want to be a good person. I don't want to fail. I want to learn from my mistakes, rid myself of distractions, and run into the arms of Jesus. Most of the time, however, I feel like I am running away from Jesus into the arms of my own clutteredness.

My life is such a contradiction. My soul yearns for holiness and then runs from the mortification necessary to attain it.

Every few months, I would take off to the U.S., which had people wondering why I went away so often. My trips were always to meet my spiritual guru, Maaji, who is based in the U.S. I would always come back with clear mind and sure footing.

You don't go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul.

We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.

Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.

Saw so much of the wickedness of my heart that I longed to get away from myself...I felt almost pressed to death with my own vileness. Oh what a body of death is there in me...Oh the closest walk with God is the sweetest heaven that can be enjoyed on earth!

That was what gospel was meant to do - make you hate and love yourself at the same time, make you ashamed and glorified.

I just need some time away to remember why I stay.

It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

God is shaking me.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That's a very profound outlook on it.