Wayne Dyer 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.

Yoga is self-conquest. Self-conquest is God-realisation. He who practises yoga does two things with one stroke: he simplifies his whole life, and he gets free access to the Divine.

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

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

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

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.

Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.

Do not concern yourself with politics and the world; your job is to connect the hearts to God.

I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

Twelve-step promotes spirituality, not religion. It gives a practical, day-to-day spirituality that tells me what I can and cannot control. There is room to be imperfect and to be someone who struggles to find God.

When the Soul that is sprung from God's Word and Will is entered into its own desire to will of itself, it will run in mere uncertainty till it return to its Original again.

The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.

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

The giving of the Torah is a story of God seeking to provide humanity with the opportunity to make moral decisions.

Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.

I began to live as if there were no one save God and me in the world.

In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.

It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.

God can only do for you what He can do through you.

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.