Joe Nichols Quotes

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.

To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence.

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.

Just like you need to strengthen your core physically with exercise, you also need to strength your core spiritually.

But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa.

People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.

I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.

I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.

I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.

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

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.

Wherever you have seen God pass, mark that spot, and go and sit in that window again.

I was asked on a radio interview what my mission is, and I immediately blurted out, "God realization."

He who is persistent will realize God. So try your best to make meditation a regular experience in your life.

You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc.

Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness. But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.

It is not so important whether a young man has been through the experience of a mission as it is whether the mission experience has been through him.

I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

I have always had this very strong, call it a feeling, call it a prejudice, call it a conviction ... that the mysteries are not easily available. You have to earn entrance into them. You didn't learn things for too little. You had to pay a price. And I felt that LSD was just blasting superhighways into the mysteries. And what I really didn't like about LSD is that people who were taking it were seeming to become less and less as they took it. They got emptier and more vapid.

If you want to make a decision in life on what to do, but if you're trying systematically, through spiritual practice, through meditation, through the invocation of the name of God, to walk closer and closer in this life to Him, you need someone to guide you. And God has made it possible in Islam for this guidance to exist.

Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.