George Leonard Quotes

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.

Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.

Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out.

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.

Prince didn't want to celebrate birthdays but to live life, to elevate and educate to the next level of enlightenment.

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.

By growing a spiritual practice, we are given all that we need.

Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.

No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.

Turn away from the world this year and begin to listen. Listen to the whispers of your heart. Look within. Your silent companion has lit lanterns of love to illuminate the path to Wholeness. At long last, the journey you were destined to take has begun.

And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.

This is the pathless path - returning to where you were initially before you got lost. The deepest truth in you is where the journey leads - shedding, like taking off layers of an onion, until you come to your essence. The key to the spiritual journey is not acquiring something outside of yourself. Rather it is shedding the veils to come back to the deepest truth of your being.

Disabused of our illusions by much travel and travail, we awaken one day to find that the sacred center is here and now - in every moment of the journey, everywhere in the world around us, and deep within our own hearts.

Whether you’re checked in or checked out, you’re always on a spiritual journey.

The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.

I'm no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment

You can't make a date with enlightenment.

Find the journey's end in every step.

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.

I began my pilgrimage on the first of January in 1953. It is my spiritual birthday of sorts. It was a period in which I was merged with the whole. No longer was I a seed buried under the ground, but I felt as a flower reaching out effortlessly toward the sun.