Jon Anderson Quotes

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

Over the years, my relationship with God has changed my life for the better - it's grown me up, given me a sense of purpose, and grounded me in my identity.

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.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I'm on course, and I'm doing what God wants me to do. I'm real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.

I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths.

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

God has a plan for you - I can promise you that. Your life is sacred. There is and always has been a path for your soul, and if you follow that path, it will lead you to the inner utopia that your soul longs to experience in this lifetime.

I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs - a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church.

At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity... to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person, I needed rules - lots of them - or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.

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

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.

God puts certain things in certain people. I'm a restless soul. I'm always searching. I'm always pressing to find what truth is and what life is all about.

I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.

I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.

I'm always soul searching on a spiritual level.

If you look to your past or even your present to see why you are here or what your purpose is, you may get stuck in a limited view of yourself. Instead, look beyond your years here on earth, reconnect with the divine, and bring forth your soul's legacy into the present moment.

I talk to God every day. He's very real for me.

I just look back at my entire life. You know, my faith. I knew that I was where I was supposed to be.

Your soul is between you and God.

What just resonates with me so strongly is my whole spirituality and the fact that we are, my belief that we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

I want to continue to strive towards deepening my relationship with God and finding peace in whatever trials or circumstances I may be given.

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