Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Heaven and God are not high above us, far away; they are deep within us. Heaven is not a distant country where there are trees and houses and other objects; it is a plane of consciousness within us. Seekers of the eternal Truth will realise their eternal Heaven within their aspiring hearts.

The spiritual always did exist, always will. It is eternal, it is changeless.

I believe there's more than this - that maybe, when we die, our brains conjure up some kind of shutdown experience, and that's what people try to sum up as the afterlife.

There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.

This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world.

Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die.

Being completely and totally present and at every single point of space and time, It is fully and completely present here and now, thus we can no more attain immanent Spirit then we could, say, attain our feet.

The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.

In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.

I believe what it says in the scriptures and in the Bhagavad Gita: 'Never was there a time when you did not exist, and there never will be a time when you cease to exist.'

You have to know the reality and the reality is that we are eternal.

Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies.

There are many levels of life which we cannot see and know, yet which certainly exist. There is a larger world, vast enough to include immortality.... Our spiritual natures belong to this larger world ... If death is apparently an outward fact, immortality is an inner certainty.

But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail

the material world and the flesh are only temporary - there are no sins of the flesh, spirit is everything!

The world is not impermanent if one lives there after knowing God.

When we get into the spirit world, and the veil is withdrawn, we shall then perhaps understand the whys and wherefores.

Nothing but truth is immortal.

One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.

Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God.

Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.

Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.