Thomas Keating Quotes

'Moonlight' has changed my life externally but also internally... spiritually as well.

Is sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; it is only the first gift of the first awakening. If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life - the one that did not work - for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever.

When you start to crack open, don't waste a moment gathering your old self up into something like you knew before. Let your new self splash like sunlight into every dark place and laugh and cry and make sounds you never made & thank all that is holy for the gift.

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

The truth is that the man I am was born in those moments, as I stood near the flood sticks with my face lifted to the chrismal rain. Shantaram. The better man that, slowly, and much too late, I began to be.

Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.

Jon passes from Darkness to Light.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

It is indeed possible to change your view of the universe from indifferent to friendly. I have helped thousands of persons make this transition in my workshops.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

The mythic journey is always about selflessness.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

A true initiation never ends.

The final goal of all human endeavor is the development of the human soul.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

Since 2005, I have been on a steadfast journey inward as a self-proclaimed Spirit Junkie. And I've never looked back.

All of us, at different times of life, are looking for answers. It happened to me a decade ago and led me to the path of wanting to know more. I read Osho, Sadhguru, Deepak Chopra, and Parmananda Yogi. I haven't found the ultimate answer. The journey is the answer.

Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God.

One of these poems I wrote after having been here only a month. The other, I wrote this morning. In the space between the two poems, I have found acres of grace