John Piper Quotes

The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.

Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them.

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks of life.

People don't see this side of me. They don't know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality.

There's a part of me that looks beyond everything now.

My goal is to get quieter as I get older.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

When I'm out having the experiences, that's exactly what I'm doing: having the experiences. Then I can later reflect and write.

I do a lot of journaling.

There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.

People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world; pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self, and leave them there.

What harrowing is after sowing, the same is meditation after hearing--it hides the word.

The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.

I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation.

Half of spiritual growth is learning what we don't know. The other half is unlearning what we do know.

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.

Spend more time in daily reflection, contemplation and meditation. Had I done that at 20, things would have been very different in my life. But things really were as they needed to be, because I had to learn ... how important it was.

We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.

This is the key to life: the ability to reflect, the ability to know yourself, the ability to pause for a second before reacting automatically. If you can truly know yourself, you will begin the journey of transformation.

One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability.