Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

Why would anyone walk through life satisfied with the light from the candle of their own understanding when, by reaching out to our Heavenly Father, they could experience the bright sun of spiritual knowledge that would expand their minds with wisdom and fill their souls with joy?

'Presence of God' is really that understanding that sometimes when you step out of your own shoes and just open your ears and listen to what's going on around you, you get answers to the questions you were asking.

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

If you connect with a greater part of yourself, I call it higher self, but that's an experience, and when you do this, knowledge comes in, including intuition, and it's always about, 'What's my heart's sole desire?'

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.

Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.

We are graced with a greater capacity for direct contact with our own higher power than most of us are in the habit of using.

I found that there were things that God could reveal to me that I could never get myself physically.

The mind is a great gift, but it has to be quieted down in order to feel, hear and see the presence of God.

He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

He returns years later, has no demands. He wants only one, most precious thing: To see, purely and simply, without name, Without expectations, fears, or hopes, At the edge where there is no I or not-I.

Rather, Spirit, and enlightement, has to be something that you are fully aware of right now. Something you are already looking at right now... We are all already looking directly at Spirit, we just don't recognize it. We have all the necessary cognition, but not the recognition.

The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.

Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God

Not everyone who is enlightened by an angel knows that he is enlightened by him.

A constant realization of the presence of Spirit will provide a sense of Divine Companionship that no other attitude could produce.

To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.

When you have constant communion with God, a constant receiving from within, there is never any doubt; you know your way. You become an instrument through which the job is done, therefore you have no feeling of self-achievement

I try to live in such a way that nothing gets bigger than my awareness of God presence on my life.

One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the celestial, the pure, in the common, the near at hand-to see that heaven lies about us here in this world.

See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.

Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of things in past and future time. But if only their minds could be seized and held steady, they would be still for a while and, for that short moment, they would glimse the splendor of eternity, which is forever still.

Is it not easy to conceive the World in your Mind? To think the Heavens fair? The Sun Glorious? The Earth fruitful? The Air Pleasant? The Sea Profitable? And the Giver bountiful? Yet these are the things which it is difficult to retain. For could we always be sensible of their use and value, we should be always delighted with their wealth and glory.