Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.

God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking.

The here-and-now is no mere filling of time, but a filling of time with God.

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

The mind is a great gift, but it has to be quieted down in order to feel, hear and see the presence of God.

The essential thing in religion is making the heart pure; the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, but only the pure in heart can see the King. While we think of the world, it is only the world for us; but let us come to it with the feeling that the world is God, and we shall have God.

There is no such things as God's word on earth. Or if there is it is not to be found in books. -Then where is it to be found?- In love. In the laughter of children. In a gift given. In a life saved. In the quiet of morning. In the dead of night. In the sound of the ocean, or the sound of a car. It can be found in anything, anywhere. It is the fabric of our lives, our feelings, the people we live with, things we know to be real.

The most holy and important practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God - that is, every moment to take great pleasure that God is with you

So really what it comes down to, it's God. Wherever you look, it's God appearing as this, that, that...and what you really love and appreciate in each form is the divine formless out of which each form comes. But to be able to sense that you have to sense it in yourself first. And that is seeing the beauty in everything, that's really what it means.

Wherever faith has eyes to see, there is a smiling presence of the Son of God.

Concentration is not the approach towards God. Concentration is a mind approach. God is everywhere, so you have to relax, you have to be meditative.

To see everything in God and to see God in everything normally takes a lifetime of practice.

One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

Recognize the possibility of the divine in any given moment.

Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.

We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.

Faith, consciousness, and awareness all exist beyond the thinking mind.

Heaven is within us, and we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it.

Why should I wish to see God better than this day? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass; I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.

The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.

Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.

So, you pay attention to what is in every moment. And when you do that, then you realize that the presence of God is everywhere.

A constant realization of the presence of Spirit will provide a sense of Divine Companionship that no other attitude could produce.

Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.