Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Devotion begins at home, inside your own awareness.

I think that as you evolve spiritually, automatically your body tells you what is acceptable for your body and what is not.

I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

When I go to the mountains, I intuitively know my place in the world much better through these experiences. The more intense they are, the better I know myself, and the more I am able to challenge myself.

Have you ever climbed a mountain? You see, once you arrive at the top of a mountain, you think you've reached the highest point. But it's only an impression that doesn't last long.

My body loves me in spite of how I may treat it. My body communicates with me, and I now listen to its messages. I am willing to get the message.

Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.

Am I the woman I think I am, the woman I want to be? More importantly, am I the woman the Savior needs me to be?

Your body will never be familiar.

In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls.

We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. it is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home.

Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner life, and being rooted in the world.

Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.

Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but about the reader and God and how the pages helped them connect at a deeper level.

Meditation means to go beyond the limitations of body and mind.

Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

You have to know your body. It's part of the beauty of the training process, and once you've determined how much your body and mind can take, you can then begin to reach your potential.

Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.

Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.

Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.

Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n.

You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.

One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability.

When man ventures into the wilderness, climbs the ridges, and sleeps in the forest, he comes in close communion with his Creator. When man pits himself against the mountain, he taps inner springs of his strength. He comes to know himself.