Malcolm X Quotes

I was wondering if any of my faith was real at all, and I started to let go of a lot of things that I had learned and say, 'Maybe I just need to start over entirely with what I have learned about my faith.' And that's what I did.

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

You have to be an original individual; you have to find your innermost core on your own, with no guide, no guiding scriptures. It is a dark night, but with the intense fire of inquiry you are bound to come to the sunrise. Everybody who has burned with intense inquiry has found the sunrise. Others only believe. Those who believe are not religious, they are simply avoiding the great adventure of religion by believing.

I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing.

Turn away from the world this year and begin to listen. Listen to the whispers of your heart. Look within. Your silent companion has lit lanterns of love to illuminate the path to Wholeness. At long last, the journey you were destined to take has begun.

I recently found myself going through a period of uncertainty about my future as a performer, my status as a personality, the believability of my Christian witness and the knowledge of God's will in my life. I felt a force bigger than myself saying, 'Lay back. Take it easy. Study hard. Read your bible. Think, write and keep your mouth shut for awhile.'

I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband.

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

It's in every person's life, around 27 to 29 years old, the stars and the planets align themselves to exactly the way they were when you were born. You're faced with yourself. There's no running away.

I believed in God my whole life, and then strayed away from it in my teen-age years, until recently.

All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.

My nature is... well... I'm a searcher by nature. I'm constantly searching for something; that's why I have a song called 'Looking for Something.' How do I do it? I read a lot of spiritual books; I meditate.

Lent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy. It's a time to look what our instinctual needs are, look at what the dynamics of our unconscious are.

We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

I'm always soul searching on a spiritual level.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

My driving force is spirituality.

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

When I started law school in 2010, I would have called myself an atheist. When I graduated law school in 2013, I was exploring my faith again. A lot changed in those three years.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

You spend all this time reading or thinking or praying or searching or exploring.Maybe there's an Omega Point of love.