John A. Powell Quotes

The soul is love, joy. Joy. Peace. Wisdom.

Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.

It is astonishing, how many difficulties clear up without any effort when the inner life gets straightened out. If half the time we spend trying to fix up outward things were spent in getting our hearts right, we would be delighted with the result. Strange as it may seem, harmony within our hearts depends mostly upon our getting into harmony with God.

Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God.

The care of the soul is 'a matter of the highest importance;' beyond any thing which can be brought into comparison with it.

Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.

Not everyone who has made peace with God has realized the peace of God.

As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.

Belief is as necessary to the soul as pleasures are necessary to the body.

In the depth of the soul is the atman, the oversoul. And that oversoul is really love and compassion, peace, joy, and wisdom.

A soul disengaged from the world is a heavenly one; and then are we ready for heaven when our heart is there before us.

I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean.

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

Through the orifice of silence, the whole geyser of Bliss, perpetually shoots up and flows over the soul.

Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.

We all have within us a centered place of wisdom, harmony, and balance. Whether or not we believe in the existence of the soul, we've all experienced times in which we're fully connected with ourselves.

The mind sees the world as a thing apart, And the soul makes the world at one with itself. A mirror scratched reflects no image— And this is the silence of wisdom.

Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul.

For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.

I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

Of late God has been pleased to keep my soul hungry almost continually, so that I have been filled with a kind of pleasing pain. When I really enjoy God, I feel my desires of Him the more insatiable and my thirstings after holiness more unquenchable.

Some souls seek to walk in awareness. Souls who walk in awareness choose a different path. They seek to experience all the peace and joy, limitlessness and freedom, wisdom and love that Oneness brings.

In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it.

And then the witness, if you go down into the witness, that has the spiritual being. Down there, in your soul, you'll get far more love than you ever got out there.