Yunus Emre Quotes

Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They're not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.

In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest

He who knows himself is enlightened.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

I feel more grounded and more settled than I ever have. I don't know whether that is to do with my spirituality or whether I'm wiser about life, but as you age you become more selective about what you listen to, devote your time to and who you hang out with.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.

Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything... whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.

Everyone has the answers.

I've always felt that the truth is in the silence.

When I was younger, I believed my inconsistency was due to my youth. I believed that age would teach me all I needed to know and that when I was older, I would have learned the lessons of life and discovered the secrets of true spirituality. I am older - a lot older - and the secrets are still secret from me.

When you can take away the ego, you learn a lot about yourself and the world around you.

Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.

Once you start drinking a little of meditativeness, a little of love, you start growing wings.

I believe in grace because I've seen it and peace because I've felt it and forgiveness because I've needed it.

Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.

Meditation is my soul's soundless conversation with my inner pilot.

Meditation is listening to the divine within

Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across the cornfields--there must be cornfields and they must wave in the breeze--and there I would immerse myself in the wisdom of the ages and in myself. Then I might perhaps find peace and clarity. But that would be no great feat. It is right here, in this very place, in the here and the now, that I must find them.

The only journey is the one within.

So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.

If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.

An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.