Khalil Gibran Quotes

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

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

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.

What we usually call human evolution is the awakening of the divine nature within us.

Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

If we were all perfected beings, we wouldn't be here in the physical world.

I am Walter, a body, but more important than the body is my spirit.

We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.

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.

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

As I've gone into soul and soul-land, and I connect with my soul and my ego, and my life is colored by my soul - people can identify from their ego, which is who they thought they are. The soul, which is who they really are, if they choose that transfer to the soul, then you live in an ocean of love.

Healing is the discovery of the Divinity within.

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience. But if we shift our experience of self-identification - and this is what enlightenment is - from the body-self to the spiritual-self, then we place ourselves under an entirely different set of possibilities and probabilities.

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

The real you is on the side of God against the false self

Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success--but Eternity will reject you. Follow up your primitivity, and you will be shipwrecked in temporality, but accepted by Eternity.

Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine.

The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

The way you become divine is to become wholly human.