Pico Iyer Quotes

I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that.

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.

It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.

When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.

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.

My spiritual journey began at conception.

Meditation was invented as a way for the soul to venture inward, there ultimately to find supreme identity with Godhead. Whatever else it does, and it does many beneficial things, meditation is first and foremost a search for the God within.

Once you accept and rejoice in your authenticity, you begin to see things as YOU are. You begin to see the authentic self is the Soul made visible. Godspeed on your journey to wholeness.

The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.

The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.

Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

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.

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

'The Magic Flute,' I think, is fundamentally asking what is it to change people's consciousness.

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

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

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

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.

All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.