David Deida Quotes

All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form.

Focus your mind on what your Highest Self chooses to be.

When the wisdom of the heart replaces the chatter of the mind, The power of Love flows forth.

And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation.

How will you become free? With a quiet mind Come into that empty house, your heart, And feel the joy of the way Beyond the world. Look within - The rising and the falling.

You can choose to follow your heart always.

A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.

To change your mind under the direction of the wisdom of the heart is a brush stroke on the masterpiece you are delivering to the world.

Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect.

Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold

He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.

Listen to your Own Heart Concerning the Path you Wish to Travel.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.

The only mistake that we can make as human beings is to be asleep, unaware of ourselves.

I just want to do what I feel is right in my heart.

Be yourself. Follow your heart. I know it sounds obvious, but it's the best advice at anyone ever. Take advice from other people, but take from it what feels right for you.

What is realisation? Realisation is my conscious and constant sailing with my Inner Pilot in His Golden Boat towards the uncharted land, where sooner than at once beauty, divinity and Immortality seeds grow into the richest harvest.

Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?

Through silence, through meditation, and through non-judgment, you will access the first law, the Law of Pure Potentiality.

From birth to death you go on living, groping in darkness with no light - and you could have created the light. You cannot find it in the scriptures; nobody can hand it to you. It is not purchased or sold; it is nontransferable. But you can create it - you can put all your energies together. You can start living consciously from this very moment.

It is your birthright to live a life abundant in love. Make the commitment today to open your heart and let your love flow.

The moment that he begins to walk along it, the warrior of the light recognizes the path.

In a recent issue of Parade Magazine when asked for "Advice for a Younger You," Glenn Close responded: "I'd tell myself to listen to my heart. Listen to that little voice that says, 'Mmm, I don't think so.' Because when you override that, you basically override who you are.