Louise Hay Quotes

You have to get a little untrapped from too much prior knowledge.

I tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate, but that doesn't mean that Judaism was inadequate.

I'm not a quester or a searcher for the truth. I don't really think there is one answer, so I never went looking for it. My impulse is less questing and more playful. I like trying on ideas and ways of life and religious approaches. I'm just not a good candidate for conversion.

I grew up Catholic. I'm not religious now but I would say that I'm a very spiritual person and you're always in search of answers.

They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.

I think sometimes you can grow up with faith, or if you're just the kind of animal who grabs onto it or doesn't grab onto it. I wasn't a big grabbing-onto-it kind of animal. I found my faith to be more about my belief, my spirituality, about nature.

I think if you're open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you're closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.

In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I'd never been religious, but he told us that religion is important whether or not we believed in one, the same way that historical events are important whether or not you personally lived through them.

Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious; and the more education, the less religion.

Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.

I love to be directed, and I can glean something from almost anyone.

You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them.

I was completely open to learning about different aspects of Scientology... and I believe in a lot of it.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

I'm someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things.

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

I was brought up in a home environment where I was taught to think critically and was encouraged to seek answers to questions about my faith.

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

I don't set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

I'm not goal-oriented so much as I'm constantly aware of what I'm passionate about, and I'm constantly updating the list. I envision many possible futures for myself where I could be happy, so I just try to keep my passions alive.

As I evolve, my interests change, always. But, what is consistent is that I always look for something new to play.

I don't think of faith as something that's like a rock, that never changes. I think it's something that's very fluid, always changing.

I try to live my life with grace and through grace even though I don't particularly believe in the divine - and that's a direct result of my having been raised Catholic.