Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested ... That's where the Light enters you.

To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That's a very profound outlook on it.

Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.

Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you've bought all your houses and your clothes, you want something bigger.

Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.

My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot, I try to learn.

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.

I had to find some clarity about approaching life more spiritually. I think I'm kind of dense, and it makes me pull the process into mind and struggle over it in finding the path.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

Since 2005, I have been on a steadfast journey inward as a self-proclaimed Spirit Junkie. And I've never looked back.

We're in soul business here.

Every few months, I would take off to the U.S., which had people wondering why I went away so often. My trips were always to meet my spiritual guru, Maaji, who is based in the U.S. I would always come back with clear mind and sure footing.

It is astonishing, how many difficulties clear up without any effort when the inner life gets straightened out. If half the time we spend trying to fix up outward things were spent in getting our hearts right, we would be delighted with the result. Strange as it may seem, harmony within our hearts depends mostly upon our getting into harmony with God.

Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.

Once you start drinking a little of meditativeness, a little of love, you start growing wings.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Go inwards. Find your inner space, and suddenly, you will find an explosion of light, of beauty, of ecstasy -as if suddenly thousands of roses have blossomed within you and you are full of their fragrance.

We deserve to know light. And grow evermore lighter and lighter.

If your inner being changes, your whole outer life will be totally different. It will have a different fragrance, a different beauty, a different grace. And when your inner being is changed and becomes a flame of light, you will become a light unto others too. You will become a beckoning light, a great herald of a new dawn. Your very presence will trigger revolutions in other people's lives.