Eknath Easwaran Quotes

I think that we all carry the divine within us.

If God is real, and he did give a piece of Himself to us, it is our brain.

The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me.

When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

We are aspects of Divinity, in the process of knowing ourselves experientially.

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without.

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.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

Soul is just that inner spirit. I use that inner spirit for whatever it is I do.

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.

I believe that there is God in all of us.

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

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

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.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

Understanding dissolves fear. When we understand the true nature of our being, fears dissipate. We are spiritual beings, not human beings.

When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.

You spend all this time reading or thinking or praying or searching or exploring.Maybe there's an Omega Point of love.

The closest you'll get to God, ever, in your existence, is measured by how close you get to yourself. Because your connection with God is you. He created you. That is the ultimate connection you have with God is you.

The profound self is a universal self.

Your soul is between you and God.

The song that starts with 'Neene Rama, neene Shama, neene Allah, neene Yesu,' is very profound. It exhorts people to stop looking for god everywhere and to instead look within themselves.