James P. Carse Quotes

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

There are times, you know, it's said in the Spiritual Tradition, just a glimpse at an enlightened personage can convey immense information at the sub-conscious level that sprouts later, that we don't even know.

There is only one issue: man's lack of experience in feeling his Divine self and his innate connection with the Divine. All other issues stem from this.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

It should not be expected that what is spiritual can be brought before the eyes, before the senses. It must be experienced inwardly and spiritually.

The knowledge we gain about the secrets of the spiritual world is at every hour, at every moment, of vital and profound significance for our souls; what seems to be remote from us personally is often what the soul inwardly needs.

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 open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.

Your soul is between you and God.

Well, I've always held down Guru… His spirit knows this.

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

My firm belief is that he reveals Himself daily to every human being but we shut our ears to the still small Voice.

I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I'm here to support the human evolution.

I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths.

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless basket, because there is no peace in it.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity... to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person, I needed rules - lots of them - or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

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

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.