Albert Schweitzer Quotes

Spiritual light rarely comes to those who merely sit in the darkness waiting for someone to flick the switch.

God creates each soul differently, so that when all the mud is finally cleared away, His light will shine through it in a beautiful, colorful, totally new pattern.

Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

We can step out of our small sense of self and awaken to this reality. One of the reasons people get confused about freedom, enlightenment, and liberation is because this awakened consciousness has different facets or different dimensions, a bit like a crystal. If you hold this luminous crystal up to the light and turn it, it will take a beam of white light and refract it into the many colors of the spectrum.

Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.

Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested ... That's where the Light enters you.

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.

Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out.

We deserve to know light. And grow evermore lighter and lighter.

Love and faith are both a search, a process, it doesn't stay the same; it comes and goes. In some people, it's asleep for a long time and then it wakes up as it evolves.

You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.