David Dobkin Quotes

When I was in my mid-20s, I traveled a lot around the world, and the question I had for everyone I talked to was, 'What is your conception of God?' I found that everybody basically felt the same: God is within and without. He's in everything.

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.

I've always believed in a higher power. You can call it God, you can call it Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Allah, I don't care. I really believe we are all a part of God.

I believe that there is some spiritual entity that's greater than us. I do not belong to any specific organized religion. I have always believed that, and I believe it even more so now. I believe that someone was listening to me, and someone is giving me an incredibly blessed life.

I think God surrounds us, in all different manifestations of the energy.

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

I believe that it is important to have faith in a cosmic, universal power and identify the reasons for one's existence.

The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.

When I talk about God, I'm not necessarily talking about religion. To me, God is the energy and light that each of us carries.

I believe that there is God in all of us.

The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us.

Jah is love, or God, whichever way you might accept it.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

I define God as an energy - a spiritual energy. It has no denomination. It has no judgments.

The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.

It would be misleading to say, 'I believe in the Force,' in the same sense that it would be misleading to say, 'I believe in the sun.' Give it whatever name you like - the Force, the Tao, the Holy Spirit, the Universal Mind - I see it in action everywhere I look, both in the world and in myself.

Where love is, there God is also.

Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God. From the infinitesimal to the infinite, everything is striving to express the thought of His Presence with which it overflows.

My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you let go of that, then it's possible to see God as a force, to connect to him or her spiritually.

My belief in God is that God wants you. God wants you to believe in him, or it, whatever you would call it.

The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

The world is a living image of God.