Yayoi Kusama Quotes

Only a person who has passed through the gate of humility can ascend to the heights of the spirit.

A tension or difficulty can signal the approach of a new grace of God. But it has to be looked at wisely and humanly.

The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.

Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.

My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect to go in the next life.

My life is not separate from my music, you know? It's not like a day job that I leave and go home. It's who I am as a person and how I am trying to grow, come closer to God, be a better person.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.

The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.

Islam is about finding your own space.

We all have that power to have a soul that magnifies God.

My joy in my life comes from my strength in my life and in my experience with God. That cannot be separated from football. It is all the same to me. It is one. I am one with it.

For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.

Within ourselves, there are voices that provide us with all the answers that we need to heal our deepest wounds, to transcend our limitations, to overcome our obstacles or challenges, and to see where our soul is longing to go.

My journey has been good, and by God's grace, I have not changed.

You can realise God as you progress in music; nothing in between.

God puts you through things - steps in life - and you get over them.

Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul,--this makes life worth living.

Prayer immediately turns us into something greater than ourselves.

Begin to know Him now, and finish never