Kent Nerburn Quotes

May not the inadequacy of much of our spiritual experience be traced back to our habit of skipping through the corridors of the Kingdom like children in the market place, chattering about everything, but pausing to learn the value of nothing.

Our souls need time to think, dream, and reflect.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

People don't see this side of me. They don't know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

I feel more grounded and more settled than I ever have. I don't know whether that is to do with my spirituality or whether I'm wiser about life, but as you age you become more selective about what you listen to, devote your time to and who you hang out with.

Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.

Sit with silence a lot - real silence, where nothing is happening - because you learn so much in those moments of quiet.

When I pray, I ask for guidance in my life to be the best person I can be, to learn what I need to learn, and to grow from what I learn.

I love philosophy and spirituality and leveling-up books and science books.

Spirituality is not about looking up or down - it's about looking inward.

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

To successfully open the door to heightened awareness, we must open it inward.

Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion

Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world; pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self, and leave them there.

We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.

Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.

I don’t think there’s any problem with advancing consciousness and becoming more and more aware of the struggle, not with the world, not to convince other people to do anything. The really interesting think is the struggle with the self, and the relation with the self, and there is no end to the improvement that can be done there, the discoveries that can be made.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Half of spiritual growth is learning what we don't know. The other half is unlearning what we do know.