Leon Battista Alberti Quotes

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

Jesus was a teacher, in a way. I mean, essentially, Jesus was a teacher. He was teaching people. He was helping them see themselves for what they were. He was helping them see their power, their strength, their beauty, what they're capable of.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

I've always wondered if there was a God. And now I know there is -- and it's me.

I challenge every one of you who can hear me to rise to the divinity within you. Do we really realize what it means to be a child of God, to have within us something of the divine nature?

We all will be Christed when we hear ourselves say: We are that to which we pray

The world needs divine power in every human being the recognition of which is the secret to all success and happiness.

To the soul that knows its own divinity, all else must gravitate

I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call upon men to make themselves conscious of this divinity within. That is really the ideal --conscious or unconscious --of every religion.

Self-realization means to know truth through yourself, and not through others. By seeking God first, through Self-realization, all things-strength, power, prosperity, wisdom, health, and immortality-will be added unto you.

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

I believe divinity is within us.

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

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.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

I think that we all carry the divine within us.

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.

This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.

In the world, there are countless Sadhus, Mahatmas, Mahapurushas, Saints, Yogis, and Walis, though the number of genuine ones is very, very limited. I am neither a Mahatma nor a Mahapurush, neither a Sadhu nor a Saint, neither a Yogi nor a Wali. I am the ancient One. The Highest of the High!

I believe that is what the God experience does for us. It calls us beyond our limits into the fullness of life - into a capacity to love people we are not taught to love - and into an ability to be who we are.