Thomas Keating Quotes

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.

The way you become divine is to become wholly human.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

As we move toward our dreams, we move toward our divinity.

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.

Anybody who says that love is a hindrance on the path of self-realization is not a sage.

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

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.

Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like the sun is your god-self; It knows not the ways of the mole nor seeks it the holes of the serpent. But your god-self does not dwell alone in your being. Much in you is still man, and much in you is not yet man, But a shapeless pigmy that walks asleep in the mist searching for its own awakening.

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

A true initiation never ends.

Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient's being. And that is a being in search of meaning, a being that is transcending himself, a being capable of acting in love for others.

I'm always trying to find ways to evolve. Evolution, for me, is a very spiritual thing, getting closer to the creator, closer to God, and becoming a better version of yourself.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. One can judge objectively to what extent a person has succeeded in his task, to what degree he has realized his potentialities. If he has failed in his task, one can recognize this failure and judge it for what it is - a moral failure.

The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.

Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.