Rudolf Steiner Quotes

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.

Know thyself, and thou shalt know God.

All the evidence you need to prove God is waiting within you to be discovered.

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

If you wish to behold God, you may see Him in every object around; search in your breast, and you will find Him there. And if you do not yet perceive where He dwells, confute me, if you can, and say where He is not.

Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.

My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself.

To see everything in God and to see God in everything normally takes a lifetime of practice.

To know God, know your heart (conscience). After you know your heart, you will learn to see God in all things. Truth can only be seen by those with Truth in them.

Meditation tells you only one thing: God is. Meditation reveals to you only one truth: yours is the vision of God.

All that you seek is already within you. In Hinduism it is called the Atman, in Buddhism the pure Buddha-Mind. Christ said, 'the kingdom of heaven is within you.' Quakers call it the ‘still small voice within.’ This is the space of full awareness that is in harmony with all the universe, and thus is wisdom itself.

Of all treasures of knowledge, the most vital is the knowledge of God, his existence, powers, love, and promises.

To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul.

My firm belief is that he reveals Himself daily to every human being but we shut our ears to the still small Voice.

Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

Why should I wish to see God better than this day? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass; I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.

The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all

The idea of Buddha consciousness is that all beings are Buddha beings, and your whole function in meditation and everything else is to find that Buddha consciousness within and live out of that, instead of the interests of the eyes and ears.

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.

The Kingdom of Heaven is within us. God is within us. He is the Soul of our souls. See Him in your own soul. That is practical religion. That is freedom.

In Holman Hunt's painting, "The Light of the World, "Christ is shown in a garden at midnight, holding a lantern in His left hand. With His right hand He is knocking on a heavily paneled door. When the painting was unveiled, a critic remarked to the painter, "Mr. Hunt, the work is unfinished. There is no handle on the door." "That," Hunt answered, "is the door to the human heart. It can be opened only from the inside."

He who knows himself knows god.

All souls can find the truth within.

The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.