Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to inner love; it will transform you, it will divinise you, it will immortalise you.

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

We are graced with a greater capacity for direct contact with our own higher power than most of us are in the habit of using.

In ancient, prehistoric times, the temples of the spirit were outwardly visible, but today, when our life has become so unspiritual, they no longer exist where we can see them with our physical eyes. Yet spiritually they are still present everywhere, and whoever seeks can find them.

I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths.

Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

I can't really connect with things unless they are spiritual in nature, so I have to make acting spiritual for myself, and each role a spiritual journey for me.

Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.

In an encounter with divine reality, we do not hear a voice but acquire a voice, and the voice we acquire is our own.

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.

When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity - which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices - what happens is that we begin to take a witness position on our own lives, and that includes our minds.

The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.

I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you've bought all your houses and your clothes, you want something bigger.

Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.

Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

Just as Divinity descends in a certain manner, to the extent that one communicates with Nature, so one ascends to Divinity through Nature, just as by means of a life resplendent in natural things one rises to the life that presides over them.