Charles Fillmore Quotes

We must find out for ourselves that inside us is a god or goddess in embryo that wants to be born so that we can express our divinity.

You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment.

Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great mystics in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths all discovered, God is within the self. God is virtually inseparable from ourselves.

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

I think that we all carry the divine within us.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

If you are convinced of God's existence then it rests with you to seek Him, to see Him and to realize Him. Do not search for God outside of you. God can only be found within you, for His only abode is the heart.

I tell you this: The purpose of life is not to please God. The purpose of life is to know, and to recreate, Who You Are.

When I lose my larger sense of supporting people to be their best, I lessen my contact with the God inside me.

Self-realization is the object of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures.

Our noblest purpose in life is to remember our spiritual nature in the face of suggestions that we are a material society.

Those to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut, have not yet visited the house of their souls whose windows are open from dawn to dawn.

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

The most good you can do for yourself spiritually is to live your life with total love, conviction, and purpose.

The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you.

The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all

Virtually every spiritual tradition teaches that your higher self is the presence of God within you.

There's more to life than physical and material.

I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.

I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person - this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life - finally have an opportunity to live.

Stardom is no longer the fuel of my soul. It is the deeper aspects of life that nurture me. And I realise I am very blessed.

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.

The way you become divine is to become wholly human.

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