Benjamin Hoff Quotes

I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

Nothing has to happen immediately, this minute, or right now. It's okay to pause for just a moment. Just take a breath. Then go quietly inside. Ask life itself to lead you to your best outcome. There's nothing you have to do, really, except get out of your own way.

Listen to your Own Heart Concerning the Path you Wish to Travel.

Practice the precept: find without seeking

Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what "it" wanted me to do.

When within yourself you find the road, the right road will open.

I live in the present moment.

When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

I know it sounds new age-y, but what I've truly come up with is that you really need to trust that you're on your own path, as long as you stay true to it and you show up, which is 99% of it.

I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.

The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be.

I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.

Enjoy the fashions, read the good articles, and when you feel threatened, turn your mental gaze inward, but keep your eyes on the road, or you won't know where you are going. Have a practice or discipline that lets you be in touch with your inner self, your soul.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us.

Before you can follow your own drummer, you have to hear the drummer.

All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

The single guiding principle that I try to follow, assuming blindly that the rest will fall into place, is to operate squarely in the present. I think it's one of the most difficult things for anyone to do.