Rudolf Steiner Quotes

There are times, you know, it's said in the Spiritual Tradition, just a glimpse at an enlightened personage can convey immense information at the sub-conscious level that sprouts later, that we don't even know.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

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

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.

The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.

Why would anyone walk through life satisfied with the light from the candle of their own understanding when, by reaching out to our Heavenly Father, they could experience the bright sun of spiritual knowledge that would expand their minds with wisdom and fill their souls with joy?

I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.

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

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.

There is only one instrument which is adequate to investigate the things of the spirit, and that is the Spirit itself. Just as it is necessary to train a man for scientific research in the physical world, so also is a long and slow process required to fit oneself for investigation of the spiritual world.

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

I've always said that God will somehow enlighten me.

What the spiritual investigator has to do to acquire the faculty of looking into the spiritual world consists exclusively of processes of spirit and soul; they have nothing to do with changes in the body, nor with visions arising from an abnormal bodily life.

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.

The human race is getting into a spiritual way of thinking, even if they don't know about it, because this is the natural need of the human being.

Your soul is between you and God.

Well, I've always held down Guru… His spirit knows this.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

Every time you are passing the test, you are coming closer to Krishna.

Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight.

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I'm here to support the human evolution.

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.