Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Islam is about finding your own space.

I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

Over the years, my relationship with God has changed my life for the better - it's grown me up, given me a sense of purpose, and grounded me in my identity.

Faith induces one to pray.Prayer purifies the heart.In the purified heart is reflected the light of Lord.When the Light sighns the mortal becomes immortal.

When you turn to God you discover He has been facing you all the time.

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.

I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths.

The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

In an encounter with divine reality, we do not hear a voice but acquire a voice, and the voice we acquire is our own.

At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity... to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person, I needed rules - lots of them - or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.

This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that's really the key to life in many ways for me. And the thing is, it's not for us to reason why everything is what it is... just do it.

I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.

I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.

The closest you'll get to God, ever, in your existence, is measured by how close you get to yourself. Because your connection with God is you. He created you. That is the ultimate connection you have with God is you.

I want to continue to strive towards deepening my relationship with God and finding peace in whatever trials or circumstances I may be given.

Meditation is the straight flight of the mind to the Kingdom of Heaven present in the heart of everyone.

Only in love can I find you, my God. In love the gates of my soul spring open, allowing me to breathe a new air of freedom and forget my own petty self. In love my whole being streams forth out of the rigid confines of narrowness and anxious self-assertion, which make me a prisoner of my own poverty emptiness. In love all the powers of my soul flow out toward you, wanting never more to return, but to lose themselves completely in you, since by your love you are the inmost center of my heart, closer to me than I am to myself.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Your worst day with God is still better than your best day without Him.

The heart that knows God can find God anywhere.

He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.

I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

When you are right, everything around you is right, for the beautiful flow that is inside your heart has the capacity to spread its fragrance of oneness-light all around you.