Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.

Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, development - begun now and ending never. And a life made true cannot confine itself - it must reach out and twine around every pulsing interest within reach of its uplifting tendrils.

The spiritual process has always been referred to as a journey - constant change.

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

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

The final goal of all human endeavor is the development of the human soul.

Eventually, I joined a church. I didn't go there to find a boyfriend; I truly wasn't looking for anyone other than the person I wanted to be.

We're in soul business here.

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

If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.

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.

Once you realize that the way you exist right now is not enough, that there is something more, your spiritual process has already begun.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

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

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

In my new book, 'Birth,' my goal is to share the path I have traveled in the spiritual sphere and in the business and philanthropic sphere in order to reveal the essential connection between the two.

Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.