Hermann Hesse Quotes

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

Heaven and God are not high above us, far away; they are deep within us. Heaven is not a distant country where there are trees and houses and other objects; it is a plane of consciousness within us. Seekers of the eternal Truth will realise their eternal Heaven within their aspiring hearts.

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

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

When you turn to God you discover He has been facing you all the time.

I'm convinced we all have a God-shaped space in us, and until we fill that space with God, we'll never know what it is to be whole.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.

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

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

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

When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God's gift, the universal force, or whatever that is.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.

Most kids have an innate feeling of the sense of God and spirit. But either we forget about it over time, or we're scared away from it.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.