Rudolf Steiner Quotes

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

There are times, you know, it's said in the Spiritual Tradition, just a glimpse at an enlightened personage can convey immense information at the sub-conscious level that sprouts later, that we don't even know.

I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I'm here to support the human evolution.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

In an encounter with divine reality, we do not hear a voice but acquire a voice, and the voice we acquire is our own.

We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.

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

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new.

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.

Let us realize the state we are in. Let us learn what needs to be learnt. Religion and God demand it.

We are graced with a greater capacity for direct contact with our own higher power than most of us are in the habit of using.

All our problems are spiritual, and our only spiritual problem is not realizing we are spiritual.

Authentic spiritual authority is what puts you in touch with reality.

The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless basket, because there is no peace in it.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to inner love; it will transform you, it will divinise you, it will immortalise you.

There is only one issue: man's lack of experience in feeling his Divine self and his innate connection with the Divine. All other issues stem from this.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.

My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is here today, gone later today.

A sincere seeker knows what his goal is: the highest Truth. He will not delay his journey. In spiritual life, we aspire for the highest Truth, for God, nothing else.

I think in metaphysical terms, I would call that increasing the speed of the vibration of life.

The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.