Paulo Coelho Quotes

My journey is not to be a star but to become as aware a person as possible.

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

My main life interest and purpose is to bring spiritual awakening into this world, to be a vehicle for the flowering of consciousness, to help people to live more consciously with less unnecessary suffering and self-generated unhappiness.

I think that all the spiritual training is just to be able to allow you to experience this from a slightly different perspective - one that's a little more stabilized.

The most important aspect of being on a spiritual path may be to just keep moving.

Just be open, life is about a constant journey and I'm very spiritual, but I'm also in touch with what's going on around me and who I am, and you have to know yourself. So for me, that's what keeps me going is just being interactive.

I definitely have a spiritual outlook. I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer, 'The Power of Intention,' which I loved. I'm not a religious guy, in fact I'm probably agnostic but I thought what this writer had to say was really powerful.

Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

This gives us more time to attend the inner need.

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.

Spiritual process means approaching your well-being in a scientific manner as a technology for well-being.

My life coach is very spiritual, and I do a lot of meditation and mantras.

I'm really into Deepak Chopra and self-help books.

There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.

Creativity is secondary, meditation is basic and fundamental; everything should come out of your meditation. Then it will give you a beatitude, your being a new song, and it will help others to experience something of it. It will depend on their meditativeness.

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

Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.

Life is not accomplishing some special work but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments.

Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

Except witnessing, I don't teach anything else. So just witness your mind and the meditation will be happening. And once you have got in tune with your being, you know the way, you know the how. Then it does not matter where you are. Alone or in the crowd, in the silences of the forest or in the noises of a marketplace, it is all the same. You can simply close your eyes and disappear inwards.

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.

Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.

Discovering a richer quality of being-ness means to keep surrendering and letting go of resistance.