Spiritual Journey Quotes

“The first impressions with the ashram people
are these sparkling interior experiences. The eyeballs can be peepholes into the Milky Way and beyond. You may mumble under your breath that the ashram people could be on something.”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God

“Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody. You can slip in and out of different shells, even different animal forms or deity forms.”
― Zeena Schreck

“Ben and Freda were happy for Cindy. She had recovered from the horrible abuses she had suffered the previous year. Her last bad dream was over five months behind her. Her schoolwork was excellent, and her home and farm chores were done promptly without any supervision. Her face without a smile was a rare sight. Ben and Freda exchanged glances. Tears had slipped glistening over their eyes.”
― Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings

“Good evening, Sergeant,” Helen said. “What’s that?”
He held the bag out to her. “A present for Lieutenant Angel. Something
to eat on your journey.”
She took it and put it back on the desk. “Wipe that damn grin off
your face, Sergeant. A smiling Toltec is a contradiction in terms.”
― Candace L. Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal

“Lord James did not know whether to feel proud of his daughter or
throttle her. He had managed to collar her quietly among the guests at the
Shinar manor, and they were alone together in the Lord Steward’s library.
He ordered her to a sofa in front of a ceiling-high bookcase.
Helen heard the same hard quality in his voice that she had perceived the first time they spoke together. She swallowed hard. He was not in a mood to be trifled with or flouted.
“You dress and behave modestly enough, Lieutenant,” he said. “But
your language earlier today was utterly appalling. You sounded like
a Lesser Shore whore, not a proper young woman, or a professional
healer. I simply won’t have it.”
“Two out of three is a start, Lord —”
He brought the back of his hand down across her face. She leapt
to her feet, not wounded so much as angry. “Is force your answer for
everything, Lord Protector?”
“Are sarcasm and insubordination yours, Lieutenant?”
― Candace L. Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal

“The material world is all feminine. The feminine engergy makes the non-manifest, manifest. So even men (are of the feminine energy). We have to relinquish our ideas of gender in the conventional sense. This has nothing to do with gender, it has to do with energy. So feminine energy is what creates and allows anything which is non-manifest, like an idea, to come into form, into being, to be born. All that we experience in the world around us, absolutely everything (is feminine energy). The only way that anything exists is through the feminine force.”
― Zeena Schreck

“What do I have for the witch behind me? Do you want my life, Sorceress?”
― Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

“Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“Like a feather, I let you go. To where you belong.”
― Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

“My mind tried to conquer these feelings like ‘God is Love’. My heart intuitively created a space in my mind for the inception of the idea that ‘Love is God’.”
― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

“Evil originates not in the absence of guilt; but in our effort to escape it.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“There are Tantrics who deliberately seek to do more active forms of renunciation, so transgression of social norms and breaking of taboo, and breaking of social taboos especially, is a form of renunciation.”
― Zeena Schreck

“This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“Let me tell you the meaning of the sacred and alluring garden that blooms in the heart of the desert and produces the food of life. The garden for which you are currently heading is nowhere and everywhere except in the camps. It is another name for the only place where you belong, Michaels, where you do not feel homeless. It is off every map, no road leads to it that is merely a road, and only you know the way.”
― J M Coetzee, Life And Times Of Michael K

“I know that the fact that I am always searching for God, always struggling to discover the fullness of Love, always yearning for the complete truth, tells me that I have already been given a taste of God, of Love and of Truth. I can only look for something that I have, to some degree, already found. How can I search for beauty and truth unless that beauty and truth are already known to me in the depth of my heart? It seems that all of us human beings have deep inner memories of the paradise that we have lost.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World

“Traveling further ingrained my desire to connect to a place other than an island that is slightly older, in a New World way, than the United States, especially after I found characteristics of my face in the faces of the people in my global community.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“The Dominican Republic is my holy land, my Mecca.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“Consciousness is existence itself — one stream, one field, one song. Many currents, many blooms. Endless possibilities, endless joy, endless excitement.”
― Donna Goddard, Consciousness Rising

“On Earth, thought alone is not enough. Spirit may be pure thought, but Earth is the realm of form. Here, things must be done. Dreams that stay in the head wither. Action gives them breath and roots.”
― Donna Goddard, Consciousness Rising

“Permission slips” are the tools, practices, identities, and symbols that give us the sense that we are allowed to grow, heal, or step into a new way of being. All spiritual, religious, and energetic pathways are valid because they are permissions or passes for the individual to align with their higher self.”
― Donna Goddard, Consciousness Rising

“Abundance is the unobstructed movement of life’s energy”
― Donna Goddard, Consciousness Rising

“When we do what we love, our whole being aligns. Passion gathers the scattered energies of the mind. The chatter subsides, the doubts quieten, and we slip into a rhythm where the mind, body, and spirit coordinate as one. Insights come. Connections appear. Solutions arrive without strain.”
― Donna Goddard, Consciousness Rising

“We often think of passion as optional — something we fit in after duty is done, or something reserved for the lucky few. But passion is not optional. It is essential. It is the doorway into wisdom, creativity, connection, and the most resourceful and inspired version of ourselves.”
― Donna Goddard, Consciousness Rising

“Passion is not a luxury or a diversion. It is the pathway into coherence. Our brains are wired for alignment. If we listen to what draws us, even in small ways, we begin to live from this state. Following what excites and enlivens us is the most direct way to live in harmony with life itself.”
― Donna Goddard, Consciousness Rising

“Love is far greater than any label we give it. It moves beyond categories and definitions, beyond the neat lines of “this” or “that.”
― Donna Goddard, Consciousness Rising

“Following what excites and enlivens us is not selfish or irresponsible. It is the most direct way to live in harmony with life itself.”
― Donna Goddard, Consciousness Rising

“Throughout the day, make a conscious effort to follow your highest leadings, whatever feels most alive, exciting, or natural in each moment. You are looking for the thread of synchronicity and allowing it to guide you from one thing to the next.”
― Donna Goddard, Consciousness Rising

“Each person is here to walk a unique path, marked by events, connections, and opportunities placed specifically for them. When we honour what genuinely calls us, we step into alignment with our own design.”
― Donna Goddard, Consciousness Rising

“Solitude is not loneliness; it is coming home to yourself.”
― Gloria Dolo, Meeting Self: How to Find Fortitude in Solitude