Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes

Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before.

Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.

I think spirituality is probably one of the most important things. I feel that I'm a spiritual person and as long as you're walking on that path, you have a communication with God - that's spiritual to me. That spirituality is something that emanates through all of us and is the source energy, and that energy makes everything stronger.

I believe divinity is within us.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.

I believe in a higher force that is within me.

I believe that there is God in all of us.

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.

My faith did not require beauty or belonging - the deeper I went into my practice, the less it required at all.

Do not concern yourself with politics and the world; your job is to connect the hearts to God.

The more we work to remove our fears and insecurities, the more aware we become of the interworkings of the universe and tap into the laws of nature, which, to most, will appear like we're doing some magic trickery.

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us.

To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.

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.

He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.

With the realization of God comes all power. If the little wave knew that behind it is the great ocean, it could say, "I am the ocean." You should realize that just behind your consciousness is the Ocean of God.

Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears.

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

Guru, God and Self are One

Stand upon the Atman, then only can we truly love the world. Take a very, very high stand; knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.

Were I a preacher, I should preach above all other things, the practice of the Presence of God.... Those who have the gale of the Holy Spirit go forward, even in sleep.

There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts.