Lew Wallace Quotes

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

The final goal of all human endeavor is the development of the human soul.

The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.

God’s priority isn’t your destination but your development. God’s priority isn’t the dream but the dreamer.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

I believe there is a spirit within us, which we nurture based upon our efforts and what we bring to the world. But it doesn't come from the outside; it comes from the inside.

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.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

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

Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.

Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.

By 1968, both The Beatles and The Beach Boys had plenty of fame - we were looking for something deeper. The Maharishi taught us how to go beyond thinking and action in order to grow from within.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

Physically, I've seen a change in my life. No, I haven't had a face lift or anything like that. I've grown. That's God's countenance.

The next frontier is not in front of us but inside us.

Work is spiritual. It is a place where we have the opportunity for spiritual growth. Often, these opportunities come from the 'how' of the ways we do our work rather than the 'what' of the work itself.