Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

What I believe is that we have this extraordinary spirit inside ourselves, which for me is our Buddha nature. I believe we are in the process of opening and getting closer and closer to our Buddha nature and stripping away all that is covering it. I don't think I'm going to end up meeting this one being up there or out there.

You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are.

Do you want your life to truly take off? Then change your idea about it. About you. Think, speak and act as the God You Are.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

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

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet.

I discovered who I was when I discovered God. You are just like your father God.

Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God.

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

I think that we all carry the divine within us.

I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to understand that there is an Authentic 'I' within - an 'I Am,' or divine spark within the soul.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

What I do is play football. What I do doesn't change who I am and who God sees me as.

If God is real, and he did give a piece of Himself to us, it is our brain.

In memorizing the prayer, it may be helpful to remind yourself that you are not addressing some extraterrestrial being outside you. The kingdom of heaven is within us, and the Lord is enshrined in the depths of our own consciousness. In this prayer we are calling deep into ourselves, appealing to the spark of the divine that is our real nature.

Jesus came to announce to us that an identity based on success, popularity and power is a false identity- an illusion! Loudly and clearly he says: 'You are not what the world makes you; but you are children of God.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone.

Every man is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing.

I believe that I am a child of God, endowed with a divine birthright. I believe that there is something of divinity within me and within each of you. I believe that we have a godly inheritance and that it is our responsibility, our obligation, and our opportunity to cultivate and nurture the very best of these qualities within us.

The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine.

People need to know that they are God. We mostly do not recognize that. We've lost the sense of our own divinity.

Inner life is Divine.

I don't think the clothes make me, but I make the clothes.

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.