Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes

The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

The soul preserves beauty.

When all desires of heart die, mortal man becomes Immortal.

I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.

To study the Way is to study the Self. To study the Self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things of the universe. To be enlightened by all things of the universe is to cast off the body and mind of the self as well as those of others. Even the traces of enlightenment are wiped out, and life with traceless enlightenment goes on forever and ever

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

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

Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true.

Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Your body has space within you that cannot die.

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.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.

Wonder blasts the soul - that is, the spiritual - and the skeleton, the body - the material. Wonder interprets life through the eyes of eternity while enjoying the moment, but never lets the moment's revision exhaust the eternal.

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.