Ivan M. Granger Quotes

#1. We spend most of our lives striving so hard
to earn our own permission to be at rest
where we are
- when we could have done it all along.

Ivan M. Granger

#2. In this divine game of hide-and-seek
stop pretending
there is any place to hide.

Ivan M. Granger

#3. The parched know --

real thirst
draws rainwater
from an empty sky.

Ivan M. Granger

#4. Love has no opposite.

Hate, fear, are not love's opposites;
they are its denial.

Ivan M. Granger

#5. Religion that does not inspire
outward compassion and inward awakening
is not religion.

Ivan M. Granger

#6. Follow the trace of time
until the start
collapses with the end
in the space of the heart.

Ivan M. Granger

#7. The real you
is much too big to be your own.

Ivan M. Granger

#8. Don't resent the work.
It gives you the strength to stand
whole and silent
before the Mystery.

Ivan M. Granger

#9. There is an inner perfection
the same for everyone.
The psyche may go through the motions,
but it's journey is done.

Ivan M. Granger

#10. Stop struggling for perfection,
and recognize the perfection
you already are.

Ivan M. Granger

#11. Suffering is always an invitation
to awareness
and compassion
and action.

Ivan M. Granger

#12. A miracle isn't an event or an experience.
It is a moment of recognition:
We glimpse the wider reality,
and what we witness washes us away.

Ivan M. Granger

#13. When we don't practice gratitude,
the world around us seems alien and unwelcoming,
and we shut down in self-protection.

Gratitude opens us to reality.

Ivan M. Granger

#14. Each day, each moment
is a step into the unknown.
How can we feel anything
but amazement?

Ivan M. Granger

#15. Through you
the world learns
to recognize itself
- as heaven.

Ivan M. Granger

#16. To really meet the mystery,
we must be uncertain.

Ivan M. Granger

#17. Let that charged space
spark inside you and flash.

Ivan M. Granger

#18. To find its perfection
the soul must reveal
its imperfections.

Ivan M. Granger

#19. Once you have gathered enough silence,
silence gathers you.

Ivan M. Granger

#20. When in doubt, favor compassion
over certainty or tradition.

Ivan M. Granger

#21. What the heart recognizes
as liberation,
the ego sees
as theft.

Ivan M. Granger

#22. Outwardly, determined effort is necessary.

But within, nothing is needed
except to yield.

Ivan M. Granger

#23. Each kind act
and simple insight
is a victory.

Ivan M. Granger

#24. Some days it's best
to do nothing
but ring like a tapped bell.

Ivan M. Granger

#25. You live in the most sacred place
in the universe:
right here,
right now.

Ivan M. Granger

#26. Even your suffering
is not your suffering.
It all belongs to the one
who lives through you.

Ivan M. Granger

#27. Regardless of belief or faith,
everyone is agnostic
until gnosis.

Ivan M. Granger