Thomas Keating Quotes

I believe one day the distance between myself and God will / disappear.

You are a creature of Divine Love connected at all times to Source. Divine Love is when you see God in everyone and everything you encounter.

You are within God. God is within you.

The purpose of the heart is to know yourself, to be yourself, and yet one with God.

God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God.

Guru, God and Self are One

I am a part and parcel of God.

As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know ourselves to be the One, fear goes; of what can we be afraid.?

I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.

We can love religion as we need rituals, but The Holy Spirit is a bird, free to fly and land where it likes. We don't actually need 'religion' in order to have a relationship with The Holy Spirit. Too many wars an violence over religion.We need to see it's all the same spirit and we are part of that spirit so we shouldn't be fighting over what name we call it. It's a free bird.

As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.

If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru.

Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

How many Buddhists does it take to change a lightbulb? Many in body, one in mind.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.

I've always believed in a higher power. You can call it God, you can call it Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Allah, I don't care. I really believe we are all a part of God.

People are drawn to the spiritual. It has a universal appeal.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

You don't have to go to church to be spiritual, but there are certain times in your life that you know there is a presence of something very spiritual.

The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.