Henry David Thoreau Quotes

As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be.

The truth is, you have a much richer life if you somehow lead one that you can hold together.

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.

You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.

My faith did not require beauty or belonging - the deeper I went into my practice, the less it required at all.

I found my faith to be more about my belief, my spirituality, about nature.

You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier.

When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self. I had faith that I'm capable enough to handle any situation. There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and [that] I'm responsible.

I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.

We do not depend upon any external help in meditation.

One road was simple acceptance of life, the other road offered sweet peace. When I made my decision, my vision became my release.

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.

I went far and now I see that the only one I needed was me.

The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us.

A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.

Your success & happiness lies in you.

Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs which point out the way to a new land.

There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves.

Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its virtues!

Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.

you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret

You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best opportunity to disclose themselves.

My child, everything in life is holy.