Aldous Huxley Quotes

Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will.

If you think you are big, you will become small. If you are willing to become an absolute nothing, you will become larger than creation and Creator.

In spirituality, when we say growth, we are talking about becoming smaller; not just smaller - non-existent.

What in your life allows you to give up to other people, and allows you to forgive others and accept forgiveness.

Getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you have no credit history at all.

A disciple asked, "Who is a Master?" The Master replied, "Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.

What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

The thing I want to really say is that I still mess up. I still go out there and say things on TV that I know the Lord is like, 'Sherri what are you doing?' but I know I can go back and get on my knees and say, 'Lord forgive me.' I know he will never leave me nor forsake me. The wonderful thing is He answers my prayers in spite of me.

That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

Although I am a Christian, I am not even close to perfect.

I was about 14 when I became a Christian. I had been going to youth group, and I'd heard the Gospel preached, and then suddenly it all started to click. God opened my eyes to see Jesus for who He really was. After I trusted Christ, the Lord changed my entire perspective on everything.

All of my favorite hymns are admissions of faults, and finding redemption even in those.

A symbol in Chinese Buddhism is the lotus plant, which regenerates every year, symbolizing life, renewal, and the Buddha himself. Actually it is used in many Asian religions including Hinduism. Few people think of it as food even though it is used as an ingredient all the time.

I am mindful that we're all sinners.

We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all.

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.

You must surrender before you can guide.

Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!

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.

To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but not of it.

When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

Whatever the reasons, when forgiveness happens it is always a miracle of grace. The obstacles in its way are immense