Countee Cullen Quotes

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

He whom the sages have been seeking in all these places is in our own hearts; the voice that you heard was right, says Vedanta, but the direction you gave to the voice was wrong.

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

Turn away from the world this year and begin to listen. Listen to the whispers of your heart. Look within. Your silent companion has lit lanterns of love to illuminate the path to Wholeness. At long last, the journey you were destined to take has begun.

And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.

This is the pathless path - returning to where you were initially before you got lost. The deepest truth in you is where the journey leads - shedding, like taking off layers of an onion, until you come to your essence. The key to the spiritual journey is not acquiring something outside of yourself. Rather it is shedding the veils to come back to the deepest truth of your being.

If Light Is In Your Heart You Will Find Your Way Home.

The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.

The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life

We search for everything we believe we don't have, not knowing that everything we are looking for is already inside us. We are born with it.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

A celebrity life can be very fast-paced, and it can be hard to find meaning in it. I believe that everyone is looking for the answers, but the answers are within ourselves.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

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.

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

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

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.