Jack Canfield Quotes

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I'm on course, and I'm doing what God wants me to do. I'm real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

Devotion begins at home, inside your own awareness.

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.

I'm always soul searching on a spiritual level.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.

I met with my spiritual teacher and went to a therapist. I realized that if I came from a positive place, not only will everyone feel better and I will feel happier, but the company will work better.

I have worked hard to become happy. It was a real struggle.

I meditate. I need that time to stay true to who I am.

No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important

Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion

Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.

Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world; pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self, and leave them there.

Thinking is the highest form of leverage.

The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.

To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.

I don’t think there’s any problem with advancing consciousness and becoming more and more aware of the struggle, not with the world, not to convince other people to do anything. The really interesting think is the struggle with the self, and the relation with the self, and there is no end to the improvement that can be done there, the discoveries that can be made.

We think we understand another person's struggle until God reveals the same shortcomings in our lives.

Contemplation: I read a lot of books on philosophy and religion, and try to keep always growing in that part of my life, because without having a spiritual grounding, I think you can get really swayed by the winds of all the praise or the criticism; it's all very, kind of, up and down. Try to stay up and focused.

Don't think the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness, wrap a blanket around yourself, and say, 'How cozy! I'm going to curl up in here by myself; let the world burn.' Not at all. We go deep into meditation so that we can reach out further and further to the world outside.

What is tragic today is that there is a number of Muslims who think that all the solutions are to be found simply by external actions. They don't have to do anything within themselves. This is a deeply Western idea - modern, Western idea, where you try to improve the world without improving yourself. And this is what the Muslims who talk about others putting their heads in the sand and that "We are doing jihad and we are political" and so forth, they are emulating a very important mistake of modernism.

Stop looking for something out there and begin seeing within.

I just don't see the point in beating myself up. I think it's more productive to concentrate on being a better person right now than punishing myself for who I was in the past.