Karen Armstrong Quotes

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

The final goal of all human endeavor is the development of the human soul.

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

Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self.

You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

The song that starts with 'Neene Rama, neene Shama, neene Allah, neene Yesu,' is very profound. It exhorts people to stop looking for god everywhere and to instead look within themselves.

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.

The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us.

My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself.

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.

He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.

The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.

Healing is the discovery of the Divinity within.

The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center.

You can call it godliness - it IS godliness. It is the highest, the greatest flowering of being. But it is not a God somewhere outside you. You cannot pray to it. You can be it, but you cannot pray to it, because it is not separate.

Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God; that you do not have to pray that it come to you; that God’s omnipresence is your omnipresence; and that all that you need to do is improve your knowing.

Knowing the Self, God is known.

I believe divinity is within us.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

I think that we all carry the divine within us.

Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.

The only journey is the one within.