inner spiritual journey Quotes

To me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle. The witch doctor tries to convince us that we have to ask God for help, to spell out to him what we need, even to bribe him with prayer or cash on the line.

I appreciate the idea of allowing people to have their own private walk with God. To me, God is about love, not condemnation.

Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.

I didn't have to go all the way to India for spiritual enlightenment. The blue-collar spirituality of everyday life was right in front of me, it was in every nook and cranny if I wanted to seek it, but I had chosen to ignore it.

All the great teachers have left a similar message: Go within, discover your invisible higher self and know God as the love that is within you.

One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.

If the vessel of our soul is still tossed with winds and storms, let us awake the Lord, who reposes in it, and He will quickly calm the sea.

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.