Van Morrison Quotes

I open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.

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.

The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.

A deep sense of sin, a humble willingness to be saved in God's way, a teachable readiness to give up our own prejudices when a more excellent way is shown, these are the principal things. These things the two disciples possessed, and therefore our Lord "went with them" and guided them into all truth.

Read the Bible and inspirational books for a purpose. Ask for divine guidance. Search for the light.

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.

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

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

Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.

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

I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

If we incline our wills in true earnest singleness to God, then we go with Christ out of this world, out from the stars and elements, and enter into God; for in the will of reason we are children of the stars and elements, and the spirit of this world ruleth over us.

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

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.

A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.

In my experience, take the Holy Spirit out of the equation of your life and it spells boring. Add it into the equation of your life and you never know where you are going to go, what you are going to do, or who you are going to meet.

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

You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.

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.

God guides us from within. He does nothing more than that. There is no charm in God shaping us like a potter. We are not earthen wares; we are beings full of consciousness.

Until you pray, God cannot work.

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

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.

There's a huge yearning in our culture for something more... it's being more in touch with God... and what we were created to be.