Cory Booker Quotes

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal.

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.

Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.

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

You change your life by changing your heart.

Since 2005, I have been on a steadfast journey inward as a self-proclaimed Spirit Junkie. And I've never looked back.

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.

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.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change.

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful.

Lent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy. It's a time to look what our instinctual needs are, look at what the dynamics of our unconscious are.

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 had to find some clarity about approaching life more spiritually. I think I'm kind of dense, and it makes me pull the process into mind and struggle over it in finding the path.

The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.

When I was locked up, I went through a big personal change with my attitude and spiritual, everything. I went through some major changes locked up.

Amputechture' is my personal way of describing enlightenment, or just the celebration of this person who is a shaman and not a crazy person.

Every few months, I would take off to the U.S., which had people wondering why I went away so often. My trips were always to meet my spiritual guru, Maaji, who is based in the U.S. I would always come back with clear mind and sure footing.

True change is within; leave the outside as it is.

As iron cast into fire loses its rust and becomes glowing white, so he who turns completely to God is stripped of his sluggishness and changed into a new man.

Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.

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

We usually focus on what we're doing or where we're going, but God's primary concern is who we're becoming in the process.