Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Follow your intuition, listening to your dreams, your inner voice to guide you.

We can be eaten by techniques and forget what we have inside of us.

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

I only give expression to the instincts from my soul.

I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us.

In my own one-woman show, 'Feeling Good,' I talk about my childhood and write a letter to my younger self in the show. The most important thing I would tell her is to trust my instincts. Just trust them. They're little whispers from God, I think. You've heard it a million times, but it's true: Listen to that inner voice.

I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.

Listen to the voice that speaks inside

Somewhere, right at the bottom of one’s own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the clown we call “I” behaves in such a distracting fashion that the inner voice cannot make its presence felt.

You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher.

Sometimes we do not hear the Whisperer even at her loudest because she speaks in our own voice, the one we most often discount.

I wonder from these thousand of "me's", which one am I? Listen to my cry, do not drown my voice I am completely filled with the thought of you. Don't lay broken glass on my path I will crush it into dust. I am nothing, just a mirror in the palm of your hand, reflecting your kindness, your sadness, your anger. If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower I will pitch my tent in your shadow. Only your presence revives my withered heart. You are the candle that lights the whole world and I am an empty vessel for your light. Rumi - "Hidden Music

Be aware of your inner voice and follow it, even though most of the time it will tell you the most uncomfortable path to choose.

Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Authenticity is the ability to listen to what nature tells us. Listening isn't the same thing as never making a mistake, but the important thing is to learn.

The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.

Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.