Rudolf Steiner Quotes

My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself.

The song that starts with 'Neene Rama, neene Shama, neene Allah, neene Yesu,' is very profound. It exhorts people to stop looking for god everywhere and to instead look within themselves.

When you turn to God you discover He has been facing you all the time.

We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.

To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.

The mind is a great gift, but it has to be quieted down in order to feel, hear and see the presence of God.

To see everything in God and to see God in everything normally takes a lifetime of practice.

We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.

Healing is the discovery of the Divinity within.

Prayer is seeing His greatness to the extent we can receive it.

Meditate on the Word in the Word.

In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.

Those who think to reach God by running away from the world, when and where do they expect to meet him? We are reaching him here in this very spot, now at this very moment.

Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.

You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all

One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the celestial, the pure, in the common, the near at hand-to see that heaven lies about us here in this world.

Now I wonder whether I have sufficiently realized that during all this time God has been trying to find me, to know me, and to love me. The question is not 'How am I to find God?' but 'How am I to let myself be found by him?' The question is not 'How am I to love God?' but 'How am I to let myself be loved by God?'

I believe divinity is within us.

In an encounter with divine reality, we do not hear a voice but acquire a voice, and the voice we acquire is our own.

Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

See, Heaven is not someplace on a disc in the sky floating around, it's right here amongst us.

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

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.