David Icke Quotes

Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with which many people identify as "me." Life cracks open that shell, and once that crack is there, then we are reached more easily by spiritual teaching.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.

The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.

Thoughts are the place where we can and must begin to change. There the light of God first begins to move upon us through the word of Christ, and there the divine Spirit begins to direct our will to God and his way.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

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

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

Right before I decided to come out, I went on a spiritual retreat called 'Changing the Inner Dialogue of Your Subconscious Mind.' I'd never been to anything like it before, and all my friends were taking bets on how long I'd last with no TV, no radio, no phone. But for me that was the beginning of paying attention to all the little things.

I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change.

I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

A true initiation never ends.

The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.

We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling that there is something higher than ourselves.

Since 2005, I have been on a steadfast journey inward as a self-proclaimed Spirit Junkie. And I've never looked back.

I'm not big on faith rules, but if I had to choose one, it would be that every person must choose a faith issue upon which to hang her hat that requires her to change - not somebody else.