Top 27 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
#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
#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
#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
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