Stephen Lovegrove Quotes

If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade,--the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element, and forcing it on our distinct notice,--we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.

With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse.

When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you?

[...] each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves

If you only knew who you really are, you'd be starstruck

The greatest gift you can give a person is to wake them up to remind them of who the really are.

Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.

Never forget the essence of your spark!

If we can believe in the Gnostic gospel of Thomas, old Uncle Jesus said, "If you bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don't bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth can destroy you.

We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.

God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways.

Your life sparks fires from within your innermost temple. No one can reach there but you, it is your inner sanctum. You are your own master there, only you can reach and ignite the fire.

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first apparent truth towards the real truth. It's very, it's very exciting.

Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.

She used to say 'You can be whoever you want, even yourself'.... Yeah, I show up knowin exactly who I was and never leave as myself

I think people will become more and more aware that we are all more than we seem.

Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.

The only person who can solve the labyrinth of yourself is You.

Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

If you search within your heart, you will find something there that will make it possible for you to understand: a spark of disenchantment and discontent, which if fanned into flame will become a raging forest fire that will burn up the whole of the illusory world you are living in, thereby unveiling to your wondering eyes the kingdom that you have always lived in unsuspectingly.

Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.