Henry David Thoreau Quotes

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

Let go of this world and take hold of God with both hands.

If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed - then I believe we are getting closer to God.

Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.

That's why we cannot love, because with the ego, love is impossible. That's why we go on talking so much about love, but we never are in love. And whatsoever we call love is more or less sex, it is not love; because you cannot lose your ego, and love cannot exist unless the ego has disappeared. Love, meditation, godliness, they all require one thing - the ego must not be there. That's why Jesus is right in saying that God is love, because both phenomena happen only when the ego is not.

Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying, we come "underneath," where we calmly and deliberately surrender control and become incompetent.

You cease totally and only then you arrive. You enter into the world of God, or godliness, only when you are no more.

Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

I know that for me I have to get out of the way and let God take control.

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.

I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He's never said a word to me about religion! I think the most powerful prayer is surrender.

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Do not concern yourself with politics and the world; your job is to connect the hearts to God.

Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare - something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state - something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

I talk to God every day. He's very real for me.

I have altogether failed to comprehend as to how undue pride or vain-gloriousness could ever stand in the way of a man believing in God.

Your soul is between you and God.

I believe that meditation is the highest spiritual practice, the pathway to God.

A vague religion—all about feeling God in nature, and so on—is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work; like watching the waves from the beach. But you will not get to Newfoundland by studying the Atlantic, and you will not get eternal life by simply feeling the presence of God in Flowers or music.

Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will.

The inner emptiness is the door to God.