Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

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.

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.

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

Spiritual light rarely comes to those who merely sit in the darkness waiting for someone to flick the switch.

Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.

Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.

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

You learn the stuff of your life (sports, movies, traveling) ... that's not the essence of your existence, my relationships were always good. Now they have transcended (rise beyond).

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.

Drop Out--detach yourself from the external social drama which is as dehydrated and ersatz as TV. Turn On--find a sacrament which returns you to the temple of God, your own body. Go out of your mind. Get high. Tune In--be reborn. Drop back in to express it. Start a new sequence of behavior that reflects your vision.

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness.

Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

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

I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.

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

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

God wants to free us from ourselves, and there's nothing like suffering to show us that we need something bigger than our abilities and our strength and our explanations.

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

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

I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that.

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.