“You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow, and then I sleep. What I have done, what I am doing, what I am going to do, puzzle and bewilder me. Have you ever been a leaf and fallen from your tree in autumn and been really puzzled about it? That’s the feeling.”
Spiritual feeling
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“And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, seeing He saith this of the Holy Spirit, Whom except we have, we can neither love God, nor keep His commandments?”
“There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.”
“I’m so worried that I’m going to perfect [my] technique someday. I have to say its unfortunate how many of my pictures do depend upon some technical error.”
“The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.”
“The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.”
“'I Am' is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.”
“The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.”
“Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.”
“God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.”
“Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.”
“Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one's true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with "It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.”
“There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.”
“One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.”
“Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.”
“I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.”
“The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows”
“You can never tell you the mountain will allow and who it will not.”
“I'm a very self-conscious person, I think we all are, but I'm especially not very comfortable in my body. I always feel really weird and awkward on the street or on the stage. It has nothing to do with circumstances, it's just an ongoing psychological state, like white noise.”
“I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.”