Leo Tolstoy Quotes

All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.

Love is the key we must turn, truth is the flame we must burn.

We're all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.

The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.

You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment.

Once you accept and rejoice in your authenticity, you begin to see things as YOU are. You begin to see the authentic self is the Soul made visible. Godspeed on your journey to wholeness.

Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

You can't make a date with enlightenment.

You've been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody, which is really somebody. For when you become nobody there is no tension, no pretense, no one trying to be anyone or anything. The natural state of the mind shines through unobstructed - and the natural state of the mind is pure love.

I was asked on a radio interview what my mission is, and I immediately blurted out, "God realization."

Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself.

You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

My spiritual journey began at conception.

I tell you this: The purpose of life is not to please God. The purpose of life is to know, and to recreate, Who You Are.

Like the lotus which thrives in mud, the potential for realization grows in the rich soil of everyday life

I think that one morning, the Papess woke in her tower, and her blankets were so warm, and the sun was so golden, she could not bear it. I think she woke, and dressed, and washed her face in cold water, and rubbed her shaven head. I think she walked among her sisters, and for the first time saw that they were so beautiful, and she loved them. I think she woke up one morning of all her mornings, and found that her heart was as white as a silkworm, and the sun was clear as glass on her brow, and she believed then that she could live, and hold peace in her hand like a pearl.

Make a destination of the greater truth.

Every truth ever discovered -- each new light that will ever burn bright -- already exists in our consciousness. All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice -- the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows -- awaits us within ourselves. Hidden in this truth is our great promise, both as individuals and as a race of beings.

When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter, no gifted high school junior, no Kristina Georgia Snow. There is only Bree." (Ellen Hopkins)