Anne Lamott Quotes

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

I'm always soul searching on a spiritual level.

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.

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.

My driving force is spirituality.

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

My whole life I've been a seeker, searching for something.

The final goal of all human endeavor is the development of the human soul.

If I had a dozen lives, one of them would involve really getting off the rails in India, heavy into meditation.

It occurred to me that actors are selfish, and they think that the world revolves around them. For one year, I quit, and I went to an ashram in Bihar and went to Himalayas backpacking.

Every religion or every philosophy is an outcome of the human search for liberation.

Prince didn't want to celebrate birthdays but to live life, to elevate and educate to the next level of enlightenment.

All of us, at different times of life, are looking for answers. It happened to me a decade ago and led me to the path of wanting to know more. I read Osho, Sadhguru, Deepak Chopra, and Parmananda Yogi. I haven't found the ultimate answer. The journey is the answer.

I would like to call myself a spiritualist more than an actor.

My spiritual journey began at conception.

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.

For a master, the rewards gained along the way are fine, but they are not the main reason for the journey. Ultimately the master and the master's path are one. And if the traveler is fortunate - that is, if the path is complex and profound enough - the destination is two miles farther away for every mile he or she travels.

I'm ensconced in the soul … and I look around and everything is love.

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.

By growing a spiritual practice, we are given all that we need.

For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

I once was lost, but now am found.

No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.

After one arrives at the summit, after going through the total transformation of being...there is yet one more step to the completion of that journey: the return to the valley below, to the everyday world. Who it is that returns is not who began the climb in the first place. The being that comes back is quietness itself, is compassion and wisdom, is the truth of the ages. Whatever humble or elevated position that being holds within the community, he or she becomes a light for others on the way a statement of the freedom that comes from having touched the top of the mountain.