Prem Rawat Quotes

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that.

You don't have to go to church to be spiritual, but there are certain times in your life that you know there is a presence of something very spiritual.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

I respect religion in general. I respect a lot, but I don't follow any religion. You know, I just follow my personal connection with God. For me, God is inside my heart and is inside everyone's heart.

Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.

I don't think I have spiritual beliefs in the structured sense - but I believe in the absolute necessity of spirit and a healthy spiritual life. It grew inside me by itself, which is surely the very nature of spirit, and instinctively I protected and nourished it. I also absorbed spirituality by osmosis.

Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.

Your soul is between you and God.

My spiritual journey began at conception.

One may have many teachers, but only one guru, who remains as one's guru even in many different lives, until the disciple reaches the final goal of emancipation in God. You must remember this, once that relationship is formed.

Remember the words of Christ: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." These words are literally true, not figures or fiction. They were the outflow of the heart's blood of one of the greatest sons of God who have ever come to this world of ours; words which came as the fruit of realisation, from a man who had felt and realised God himself; who had spoken with God, lived with God, a hundred times more intensely than you or I see this building.

For me, the beginning of sharing my faith with people began by throwing out Christianity and embracing Christian spirituality, a nonpolitical mysterious system that can be experienced but not explained.

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept.