Miroslav Volf Quotes

Sometimes we are simply "blown away" and in awe by finding ourselves in the presence of God. Other times, however, even when we are participating in acts of kindness-complimenting others, writing a check to charity, donating time to a good cause-we are oblivious to the miracle of what is happening at that moment.

Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul.

Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated, means paying attention to what is actually happening; it's about what is really going on.

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.

My spiritual practice reminds me of what's really real, what's really hood.

I think that we are starting to get much more conscious about, you know, the importance of the spiritual path, and we are fulfilling it by paying attention to ourselves.

One should hallow all that one does in one's natural life. One eats in holiness, tastes the taste of food in holiness, and the table becomes an altar. One works in holiness, and raises up the sparks which hide themselves in all tools. One walks in holiness across the fields, and the soft songs of all herbs, which they voice to God, enter into the song of our soul.

Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.

Here is the Divine Dichotomy... The way to 'get there' is to 'be there'. Just be where you choose to get!' It's that simple.

No gesture is too small when done with gratitude.

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.

I love Osho. I don't know if you would call him a philosopher; I would just call him a really cool dude. Osho really changed my life. Because the way that he spoke about emotion and the male and female energies in the world and how people react to the world around them, it's so simple, yet it has such a depth.

If you pay sufficient attention, everything in life is magnificent, everything is a doorway to the Divine.

You can change your life with a simple shift of attention. But to make that simple shift, you have to find your heart. It's the only way. Accept yourself, then transcend yourself.

So, you pay attention to what is in every moment. And when you do that, then you realize that the presence of God is everywhere.

I just hope that as I get older, I calm down and enjoy the moment, enjoy the great gifts that God has given me.

Grace happens every day.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God's presence.

If you have faith, then your whole life is put in a new perspective. You get to work but enjoy the work at the same time. If you grow spiritually, you do what's in front of you and let the results speak for themselves.

The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully.

If you're not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your 'today.' The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that's yours in Christ. Don't let it go.

I don't have to go to a mountain to meditate. I'm meditative in every moment of my life.

What I think is more important than actually believing in reincarnation or thinking about a post-death existence is to live in the present.