Eknath Easwaran Quotes

Even the lowest of the low have the Atman (Soul) inside, which never dies and never is born, immortal, without beginning or end, the all pure, omnipotent and omnipresent Atman!

I believe in God and immortality.

As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.

The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.

I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.

Forever is longer than you know. Eternal is longer than Forever. God is more than you imagine. God is the energy you call imagination. God is creation. God is first thought. And God is last experience. And God is everything in between.

The soul is not ruled by time and space. The soul is infinite. It blends with the One in infinity.

God is unlimited and infinite with respect to time; He is eternal. God is unlimited and unaffected by space; He is present everywhere at the same time.

Spirituality is the science of the Soul.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

The word Atman (Soul) means the "breath of life". Atman is the principle of man's life, the Soul that pervades his being, his breath, his intellect and transcends them. Atman is what remains when everything that is not the self is eliminated. It is the unborn and immortal element in man, which is not to be confused with body, mind or intellect.

All but God is changing day by day.

The reality of my life cannot die for I am indestructible consciousness.

What exists in truth is the Self alone. The world, the individual soul and God are appearances in it. Like silver in mother-of-pearl, these three appear at the same time and disappear at the same time. The Self is that where there is absolutely no 'I thought'. That is called 'Stillness'. The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.

There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

The highest and greatest goal that every soul has to reach is God. As everything needs renunciation, that highest goal needs the highest renunciation.

Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even the greatest religion becomes no more than a broad sect or branch of the one universal religion, by which we shall understand in the future man's seeking for the eternal, the divine, the greater self, the source of unity and his attempt to arrive at some equation, some increasing approximation of the values of human life with the eternal and the divine values.

Faith isn't the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It's simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step.

Certain it is, that as nothing can better do it; so there is nothing greater, for which God made our tongues, next to reciting His praises, than to minister comfort to a weary soul.

God's love is unbounded. It has no limits.

The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist.

Do you want to trust your life in God's pocket or keep it in your own?

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty !

The spirit is the true self.