Sandra Bernhard Quotes

We're in soul business here.

Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

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

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.

I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.

The mystery of the soul is like that of a closed door. When you open it, you see something which was not there before.

I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me away from church and community worship to the internal journey. Before my recovery began, I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter.

'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks of life.

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept.

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

In my new book, 'Birth,' my goal is to share the path I have traveled in the spiritual sphere and in the business and philanthropic sphere in order to reveal the essential connection between the two.

Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.

I have always been fond of recognizing the spiritual side of someone's personality. It's a very lovely concept.

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.

When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.