Barry Lopez Quotes

It's good to be successful and have financial status but if you're only gonna live for the money, you're only gonna reach a certain status and I'm in there for greatness and peace of mind.

Be someone who lives with joy, with purpose, as your own light brightly shines. Be, in every moment, the special someone you are truly meant to be.

There's more to life than physical and material.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

I think no matter whether you're old or young or dying or living, to get to a place where you feel fulfilled and content is really rare and really cool.

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.

Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy – and if I'm not, I don't know the difference... Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be – that's much more important than just being happy.

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

When your life is on course with it’s purpose, you are your most powerful.

Create a life you can't wait to live.

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

Your mission in life is to have a "why" to live for, to use your best qualities in the service of the kind of world in which you would like to live. That is your purpose. This is what life expects of you. And when you live according to your purpose, setting goals that support it, you may find the pieces of your life drawn together into a strong internal whole. Then, no matter how difficult life's experiences may prove to be, you can be able to endure and even prevail.

Rise above... cultivate the light you have within you, and it will shine through as a radiant expression that will be seen by others.

Rebuilding us. Isn't that what the spirit requires, when we climb over the wreckage of our lives, sometimes, we go on to make our lives our own affirmation? We are perfect expressions of perfect Love, here and now. There is no permanent injury.

Gently eliminating all obstacles to his own understanding, he constantly maintains his unconditional sincerity. His humility, perseverance, and adaptability evoke the response of the universe and fill him with divine light.

...Blessed is anyone who knows who he or she really is and builds a place to live there.

The most good you can do for yourself spiritually is to live your life with total love, conviction, and purpose.

The moment one is on the side of life; peace and security drop out of consciousness. The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.

There is a light within every soul; it only needs the clouds that overshadow it to be broken for it to beam forth.