Stephen Covey Quotes

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

What just resonates with me so strongly is my whole spirituality and the fact that we are, my belief that we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

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

There is only one issue: man's lack of experience in feeling his Divine self and his innate connection with the Divine. All other issues stem from this.

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

In an encounter with divine reality, we do not hear a voice but acquire a voice, and the voice we acquire is our own.

The spiritual quest is not some added benefit to our life, something you embark on if you have the time and inclination. We are spiritual beings on an earthly journey. Our spirituality makes up our beingness.

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.

I have read a lot of spiritual works and believe that our body is just a place for the soul to dwell.

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

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

Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to inner love; it will transform you, it will divinise you, it will immortalise you.

In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

The first time I stepped onto the rooftop of the Potala Palace in Lhasa in 1985, I felt, as never before or since, as if I was stepping onto the rooftop of my being: onto some dimension of consciousness that I'd never visited before.

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

I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to understand that there is an Authentic 'I' within - an 'I Am,' or divine spark within the soul.

Understanding dissolves fear. When we understand the true nature of our being, fears dissipate. We are spiritual beings, not human beings.

The profound self is a universal self.

Your soul is between you and God.

Look at what trance means. It means to transcend... it means to become transcendental! So if we get a singular transcendental path of light, that could lead to such great dimensions of consciousness, of revelation, of spirituality, of spiritual power.

Living from the perspective at which you came from and returning to source really is an act of remembering, rather than an act of learning.

As you become multi-sensory, you begin to see yourself as a soul first and a personality second. You begin to experience yourself as more than a body and more than a mind. and the circumstances around you as meaningful and designed for your spiritual growth.

Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like the sun is your god-self; It knows not the ways of the mole nor seeks it the holes of the serpent. But your god-self does not dwell alone in your being. Much in you is still man, and much in you is not yet man, But a shapeless pigmy that walks asleep in the mist searching for its own awakening.

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

I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths.