Donovan Quotes

'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks of life.

I recommend anybody go to a bookstore, go down the self-help or new-age section, and just walk those aisles. See what book jumps out at you; there's a good chance it's a book you need in your life. That's basically how I find the books that I read.

I briefly flirted with some of the new age offerings available in the early '90s and found strength in Buddhism, but ultimately I was looking for something that was not tied to tradition.

I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

Focus your mind on what your Highest Self chooses to be.

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.

Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

Meditation is the progressive quieting of our mind, until we reach the source of thought, which in wisdom traditions are the realm of our soul and spirit. In this domain of awareness there is infinite creativity, synchronicity, the power of intention, and freedom from limitations.

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. The Art of Peace is a celebration of the bonding of heaven, earth, and humankind. It is all that is true, good, and beautiful.

I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within.

You can't make a date with enlightenment.

I was looking for something within Judaism that had a spiritual nature and not just a religious nature. So my trainer at the time was the one who took me to the Kabbalah center on my 40th birthday. I was like, "Oh, this is so cool." I was just ready for it. I was ready for something different.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment.

Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.

Meditation is the eye that sees the Truth, the heart that feels the Truth and the soul that realises the Truth.

When we really connect to that place of wisdom and strength and understanding, everything becomes easier.

Excellence, to me, is the state of grace that can descend only when one tunes out all the world's clamor, listens to an inward voice one recognizes as wiser than one's own, and transcribes without fear.

Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

There is magic within, there is magic without. Follow me and you'll learn just what life's all about.

Religion asks you to learn from the experience of others. Spirituality urges you to seek your own.

Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.

The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life