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God is life…

• God is life. God is life in action. Miguel Angel Ruiz
• God is not merely a name. God is the life that is surging within us; the Life by which we see and love one another. Paramahansa Yogananda
• God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
• God is to me that creative force, behind and in the universe, who manifests Himself as energy, as life, as order, as beauty, as thought, as conscience, as love. Henry Sloane Coffin
• God has nothing of the already made; He is unceasing life, action, freedom. Creation, so conceived, is not a mystery; we experience it ourselves when we act freely. Henri Bergson
• God is the source of life and light and joy to the universe. Like rays of light from the sun, like the streams of living water bursting from a living spring, blessings flow out from Him to all His creatures. And wherever the life of God is in the hearts of men, it will flow out to others in love and blessing. Ellen G. White
• Life is God because everything is a part of God. Kevin R. Williams
• The great central fact of the universe is that spirit of infinite life and power that is back of all, that manifests itself in and through all. This spirit of infinite life and power that is back of all is what I call God. I care not what term you may use, be it Kindly Light, Providence, the Over–Soul, Omnipotence, or whatever term may be most convenient, so long as we are agreed in regard to the great central fact itself. God then fills the universe alone, so that all is from Him and in Him, and there is nothing that is outside. He is the life of our life, our very life itself. We are partakers of the life of God; and though we differ from Him in that we are individualized spirits, while He is the Infinite Spirit, including us, as well as all else beside, yet in essence the life of God and the life of man are identically the same, and so are one. They differ not in essence or quality; they differ in degree. William James
• Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. And while there is life, there is delight in the self-awareness of the divinity. To love life is to love God. The hardest and most blissful thing is to love this life in one’s suffering, in the guiltlessness of suffering. Leo Tolstoy
• God is the Spiritual Presence that pervades life. Paul Tillich
• Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. Leo Tolstoy
• O divine spark, heartbeat of creation, Pulsing the cosmos into rhythmic tides Of life and love, love and life Flourishing In and for all, now and forever. Flora A. Keshgegian
• God’s presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel. Frederica Mathewes-Green
• God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love. Mary Baker Eddy
• God is life; and in that life which is God there are no years. … The human sense of life is not your real life. Joel S. Goldsmith
• Another metaphor for energy is life. Life is also a common way to understand God. God is life itself or the source of life. Since life is still abstract, there are a number of metaphorical ways to image life, such as water or air or breath. God is like water, which makes life possible. God is like air or breath without which no one can live. Flora A. Keshgegian
• The energy of life entering and leaving your body flows evenly throughout the universe. With that current, the mind of the cosmos communicates with all things. Ilchi Lee
• The Father of the universals doth consist of Light and Life, and from Him Man was born. Hermes Trismegistus
• To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life. Leo Tolstoy
• There is no God other than life itself. Rajneesh

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…the very essence of life…

• I don’t think that God is a person, a great big person in the sky. I think that God is the essence of life that shapes and forms itself in a thousand different ways, in a million lifetimes, that can be used and focused, and directed and experienced. Neale Donald Walsch
• God is Life, he is the essence of Life, or, if we prefer, the essence of Life is God. Saying this we already know what is God the father the almighty, creator of heaven and earth, we know it not by the effect of a learning or of some knowledge, we don’t know it by the thought, on the background of the truth of the world; we know it and we can know it only in and by the Life itself. We can know it only in God. Michel Henry
• I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creating life. Or some kind of energy or anti­gravity. Debbie Harry
• This Life is not biological life defined by objective and exterior properties, nor an abstract and empty philosophical concept, but the absolute phenomenological life, a radically immanent life that possesses in it the power of showing itself in itself without distance, a life that reveals permanently itself. A manifestation of oneself and a self-revelation which doesn’t consist in the fact of seeing outside oneself or of perceiving the exterior world, but in the fact of feeling and of feeling oneself, of experiencing in oneself its own inner and affective reality. Michel Henry
• The life of things is none other than a spiritual essence, an invisible and impalpable thing, a spirit and a spiritual thing. On this account there is nothing corporeal but has latent within itself a spirit and life. Paracelsus
• It is the essence of life that it exists for its own sake. Alfred N. Whitehead

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…the primal source of life…

• Know him to be the primal source of life Whose glory permeates the universe, Who is beyond time and space, yet can be Seen within the heart in meditation. The Upanishad
• Men seek the causes for death but no one seeks the Divine source of life. Sathya Sai Baba
• All miracles mean life, and God is the Giver of life. A Course in Miracles
• A different image of God changes our spiritual lives profoundly. If we think of God as nutrient and energy, as the source from which we draw life and strength, it changes our spiritual instincts. If God were the substrate from which we draw being, then Divine Life is always present in us, and we are always present in God. If this was our view of God, it would mean we always have access to the Divine. It would mean we are as inseparable from God as a tree is from the soil. Like the tree, Divine Life is always there, always surrounding and sustaining us. Doug Hammack
• Man’s life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills. Pope John Paul II
• God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience. Mahatma Gandhi
• Everything has sprung from immortal life and is vibrating with life, for life is immense! Rabindranath Tagore

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…the living spark that animates us all…

• The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God. Arthur Young
• The great lesson is, that unity is behind all. Call it God, Love, Spirit. Allah, Jehovah – it is the same unity that animates all life from the lowest animal to the noblest man. Swami Vivekananda
• The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not be were God absent from it; the loftiest seraph is but a spark from the eternal fire, which is God. Sharers in one life all form one brotherhood. The immanence of God, the solidarity of man, such are the basic truths of theosophy. Annie Besant
• Nature is a unity in diversity…a harmony, blending together all created things…one great whole animated by the breath of life. Alexander von Humboldt
• I, the fiery life of divine essence, am aflame beyond the beauty of the meadows, I gleam in the waters, and I burn in the sun, moon, and stars….I awaken everything to life. Hildergard of Bingen
• God as energy for life celebrates, values, and honors life as a dynamic process in which everyone and everything participates. In the beginning and end is life. The whole universe is alive, as is everything in it. Divine energy animates all. Flora A. Keshgegian
• …if the beasts could speak they would give us, no doubt, endless versions of the only joy in which, as we may fancy, the blood of the universe flows consciously through their hearts. Santayana

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…the power of life calling us to live and to evolve…

• I experience God as the power of life, the power of love and the ground of being. I don’t say that’s what God is; I say that’s my experience of God. John Shelby Spong
• God is the power that makes life. Beatrice Wood
• I think I can tell you how I experience God. I experience God as the power of life calling me to live, I experience God as the power of love calling me to love. John Shelby Spong
• Awareness of an all-pervading mysterious energy articulated in the infinite variety of natural phenomena seems to be the primordial experience of human consciousness, awakening to an awesome universe filled with mysterious power. Thomas Berry
• The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man’s real business in the world and the justification of his existence, without which he would only be an insect crawling among the ephemeral insects on a speck of surface mud and water which has managed to form itself amid the appalling immensities of the physical universe. Sri Aurobindo
• All life is evolving, for evolution is God’s law; and man grows slowly and steadily along with the rest. Charles Webster Leadbeater
• There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live. Dick Gregory
• These ideas speak of the power of God as that which makes life happen and which enlivens our existence. Flora A. Keshgegian

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… the life force in everything…

• That has been my personal relationship with God-a connection with the powerful, loving, wise energy in all of us, in all creation. It is the life force itself. We can all have contact with it each moment in our lives, but it takes commitment and practice. We must be willing to move through all our deepest fears, doubts, and misunderstandings. Shakti Gawain
• The Supreme Being is doing everything. Through all the bodies it is doing all this as the vital force. Mooji
• God’ is a word for the mysterious life force in everything. And I’m experiencing the reality of that all-embracing life force right now. Tim Freke
• A shaman is someone who looks at the world and doesn’t see matter devoid of spirit. He sees life in everything. He sees an intelligence that weaves its way through our body, through the rocks, through the trees, through the sky, through the cosmos and its an intelligence far greater than anything than man can understand or comprehend. Raz Degan
• He is life’s liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from all cares — he is sleep! When his blood bursts from the grape and flows across tables laid in his honor to fuse with our blood, he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadows of ivy-cool sleep. Euripides
• The energy that moves life is the force of the Feminine. She is unstoppable. She is the source of all life, the mover of blood, the breather of breath, the flow of the river’s water. The Feminine is life. We can feel Her moving and living in any moment we are open to Her, or as Her. David Deida
• The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal. Mahatma Gandhi
• In India’s spiritual tradition, the life force is known as prana; in China, chi (also spelled qi). The ancient Egyptians referred to it as ka; the Greeks, pneuma. In Judaism, the life force is known as ruach; in Christianity, spiritus. Joseph Selbie

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…the very essence of nature

• Nature is a unity in diversity…a harmony, blending together all created things…one great whole animated by the breath of life.  Alexander von Humboldt
• The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe.  Albert Schweitzer

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God is the universal One Life underneath all forms of life…

• What is God? The eternal one life underneath all the forms of life. What is love? To feel the presence of the one life deep within yourself and all creatures; to be it! Therefore, all love is the love of God. Eckhart Tolle
• It has been said “God is love” but that is not absolutely correct. God is the One Life in and beyond the countless forms of life. Love implies duality: lover and beloved, subject and object… love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself. Eckhart Tolle
• You don’t ‘have’ a life, you ‘are’ life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy. Can you sense deep within that you already know that? Can you sense that you already are That? Eckhart Tolle
• Death is the dissolution of either physical form or psychological form. And when a form dissolves, always something shines through that had been obscured by the form. This is the formless One Life, the formless One Consciousness. Eckhart Tolle
• The Upanishads point to the dimension of the formless One Life that is you. Vibrant with life, but still. Extremely awake, but still. In between thoughts and words is the canvas on which the universe is maintained. Eckhart Tolle
• We are like the jets in the burner of a gas stove. There are many little holes through which the flames are pouring, but under the burner there is only one flame. We are little flames coming from the big flame of Life. Beneath all the tiny jets of human life is One Life; behind the flowers, behind all nature, is One Life. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Enquire: ‘Who am I?’ and you will find the answer. Look at a tree: from one seed arises a huge tree; from it comes numerous seeds, each one of which in its turn grows into a tree. No two fruits are alike. Yet it is one life that throbs in every particle of the tree. So, it is the same Atman everywhere. Anandamayi Ma

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…the Universal One Life manifesting as all living things

• Since time immemorial, flowers, crystals, precious stones, and birds have held special significance for the human spirit. Like all life-forms, they are, of course, temporary manifestations of the underlying one Life, one Consciousness. Their special significance and the reason why humans feel such fascination for and affinity with them can be attributed to their ethereal quality. Eckhart Tolle
• Everything has sprung from immortal life and is vibrating with life, for life is immense! Rabindranath Tagore
• From life are born all creatures, By life they grow, and to life they return. The Upanishad
• We all cannot honestly say ‘we have life’ for life does not belong to us, and we cannot control or monopolize it. All we can say without arrogance and presumption is that we are instruments through which a universal principle that produces what we call ‘life’ manifests itself in the form of a human being… He who thinks that he has any power whatever of his own, thinks foolish; for all the powers he has are lent him by nature. Franz Hartmann

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The entire universe is alive, full of God

• All my investigations have led me away from the idea of a dead material universe tossed about by various forces, to that of a universe which is absolutely all force, life, soul, thought, or whatever name we choose to call it. Every atom, molecule, plant, animal or planet, is only an aggregation of organized unit forces held in place by stronger forces, thus holding them for a time latent, though teeming with inconceivable power. All life on our planet is, so to speak, just on the outer fringe of this infinite ocean of force. The universe is not half dead, but all alive. William Walker Atkinson
• Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or living. Jon Kabat-Zinn
• There is but One Life, and its manifestations comprise all the forms and shapes of the Universe. From Life comes but Life-and Life can come only from Life. Therefore we have the right to expect that all manifestations of the One Life should be Alive. And we are not mocked in such belief. Not only do the highest Occult Teachings inform us that Everything is Alive, but Modern Science has proven to us that Life is present everywhere-even in that which was formerly considered dead matter. It now sees that even the atom, and what lies back of the atom, is charged with Life Energy and Action. Forms and shapes may change, and do change-but Life remains eternal and infinite. It cannot Die-for it is LIFE. William Walker Atkinson
• There is but One Power in the Universe-One Energy-One Force. And that Power, Energy and Force is a manifestation of the One Life. There can be no other Power, for there is none other than the one from whom Power may come. And there can be no manifestation of Power that is not the Power of the One, for no other Power can be in existence. The Power of the One is visible in its manifestations to us in the natural laws and forces of Nature-which we call the Creative Will. This Creative Will is the inner moving power, urge and pressure behind all forms and shapes of Life. In atom, and molecule; in monad, in cell, in plant, in fish, in animal, in man,-the Life Principle or Creative Will is constantly in action, creating, preserving, and carrying on life in its functions. We may call this Instinct or Nature, but it is the Creative Will in action. This will is back of all Power, Energy, or Force-be it physical, mechanical or mental force. And all Force that we use, consciously or unconsciously, comes from the One Great Source of Power. If we could but see clearly, we would know that back of us is the Power of the Universe, awaiting our intelligent uses, under the control of the Will of the All. There is nothing to be afraid of, for we are manifestations of the One Life, from which all Power proceeds, and the Real Self is above the effect, for it is part of the Cause. But over and above-under and behind-all forms of Being, Matter, Energy, Force and Power, is the ABSOLUTE-ever Calm; ever Peaceful; ever Content. In knowing this it becomes us to manifest that spirit of absolute Trust, Faith and Confidence in the Goodness and Ultimate Justice of That which is the only Reality there is. William Walker Atkinson

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Life, the essence of God, is our inner most essence

• You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life. Eckhart Tolle
• Being is the eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death. However, Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. Eckhart Now
• I am the joy of life expressing and receiving in perfect rhythm. Louise Hay
• The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent life. Patanjali
• Life is infinite energy coupled with limitless creative imagination. It is the invisible essence and substance of every visible form. Its nature is goodness, truth, wisdom and beauty, as well as energy and imagination. Our highest satisfaction comes from a sense of conscious union with this invisible Life. All human endeavor is an attempt to get back to first principles, to find such an inward wholeness that all sense of fear, doubt and uncertainty vanishes. Ernest Holmes
• There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything. Chogyam Trungpa
• There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. Rumi
• The only thing that is truly ours is the life that’s in our body that wants to unfold. Everything that we think, all our plans and all our values, all our projects, our self-image, our sense of personal identity—all of that is beside the point of what needs to happen right now. Reginald A. Ray

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Love is to sense that same essence in ourselves and every creature

• What is God? The eternal one life underneath all the forms of life. What is love? To feel the presence of the one life deep within yourself and all creatures; to be it! Therefore, all love is the love of God. Eckhart Tolle
• Once there is a certain degree of Presence, of still and alert attention in human beings’ perceptions, they can sense the divine life essence, the one indwelling consciousness or spirit in every creature, every life-form, recognize it as one with their own essence and so love it as themselves. Until this happens, however, most humans see only the outer forms, unaware of the inner essence, just as they are unaware of their own essence and identify only with their own physical and psychological form.   Eckhart Tolle
• By discovering who you are, you will see the beauty, the holiness, and the eternity in others. In eternity, there is truly no other. There is only One Life in which everything is related to everything else. A Course in Miracles
• The river that flows in you also flows in me. Kabir
• All living things share the same true nature. Bodhidharma
• The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe. Albert Schweitzer
• The forest vision of life balances this love of diversity in living beings with an unwavering focus on the unity which is life’s center. Eknath Easwaran
• The impact of one encounter has the power to bring us to holy relationship with everyone in the world, because Life is One and Love, indivisible. A Course in Miracles
• The origin of life forms is the differentiation of pure consciousness into multiple forms of life expressed as qualia conglomerates which create the relative world. Deepak Chopra
• What is life? it is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.  It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.  Crowfoot
• The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.  Joseph Wood Krutch
• If God is energy for life then God is in everything. God is present everywhere. Nothing and no one has life without the presence of God. Metaphors of God as breath or life force or even heart connote this. Just as we are not alive without the presence of breath or a beating heart, if we are alive then God is with us and in us. The divine is present not only in us, but in all that is alive, the whole universe and all that is in it. God is in creation, all of it. This is full panentheism. It may even be a form of pantheism since everything and everyone is fundamentally energy. Flora A. Keshgegian

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There is only One Life and each of us is a bead on its thread

• We are little flames coming from the big flame of Life. Beneath all the tiny jets of human life is One Life; behind the flowers, behind all nature, is One Life. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual entity? There is only Life, and we are beads strung on its strong and endless thread. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• We are all in extension of the One Life, and we can see peace instead of separation. A Course in Miracles
• We are all connected in the great Circle of Life. The Lion King (movie)
• We are all one – the web of life. Jonathan Lockwood Huie
• “All the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth may be descended from some one primordial form,” wrote Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species.  In a real sense all life on earth may be related as siblings, just as all humans appear to descend from a single family.   Paul Harrison
• Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web. Marcus Aurelius
• Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in a single consciousness and creating all things with a single purpose that they might work together spinning and weaving and knotting whatever comes to pass. Marcus Aurelius
• There is only one Self in all creatures. The One appears many, just as the moon Appears many, reflected in water. The Upanishad

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Life is a divine river that flows through us all, connecting us all into the greater whole that is God

• The river that flows in you also flows in me. Kabir
• Our life and E. coli’s share the same source. We are all branches of the great river called God.  Inuo Taguchi
• It turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life. Richard Feynman
• We are all connected in the great Circle of Life.  The Lion King  (movie)
• The planet is an organism. All of us are cells with different purposes. And yet we are intertwined. Serving each other. Serving the whole. Dan Brown
• We are all connected in the great Circle of Life. The Lion King
• We are all connected through this world of wonders that’s more plainly referred to as life. Charlie O’Shields
• I see a world in the future in which we understand that all life is related to us and we treat that life with great humility and respect. David Suzuki
• You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.  Mitch Albom
• Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. Frederick Buechner
• The indigenous understanding has its basis of spirituality in a recognition of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all living things, a holistic and balanced view of the world. All things are bound together. All things connect. Rebecca Adamson
• In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The birth and rebirth of all nature, / The passing of winter and spring, / We share with the life universal, / Rejoice in the magical ring.  Doreen Valiente

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This web of life is God’s very heartbeat

• God’s power as dynamic energy is present with us, ever available to us. Indeed, it lives within us and within all of creation. God’s heartbeat is that of the web of life.   Flora A. Keshgegian
• This universe is a pulsing web of relations. The emphasis here is on interrelationship, interdependence, and dynamic connection. Everything is in relation with and affects everything else. Human beings are part of the web of creation. We are no longer the center of the universe nor are we the pinnacle of a hierarchy. Rather everything that is manifests God as the energy for life.  Flora A. Keshgegian
• The relational web embraces the divine and all of creation, in a dynamic network of interaction. God is not to be viewed as atop this network, but as the grounding of it.  Flora A. Keshgegian
• In nature’s economy the currency is not money, it is life.  Vandana Shiva
• Nature has provided two great gifts: life and then the diversity of living things, jellyfish and humans, worms and crocodiles. Theodore Holmes Bullock
• This we know: All things are connected like the blood that unites us. We did not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand in it.  Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.  Chief Seattle
• Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. Chief SeattleThe important element is the way in which all things are connected. Every thought and action sends shivers of energy into the world around us, which affects all creation. Perceiving the world as a web of connectedness helps us to overcome the feelings of separation that hold us back and cloud our vision. This connection with all life increases our sense of responsability for every move, every attitude, allowing us to see clearly that each soul does indeed make a difference to the whole. Emma Restall Orr

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If life is God and each of us is life, then each of us is divine

• You are Life passing through your body, passing through your mind, passing through your soul. Once you find that out, not with logic, not with the intellect, but because you can feel that Life-you find out that you are the force that makes the flowers open and close, that makes the hummingbird fly from flower to flower. You find out that you are in every tree, and you are in every animal, vegetable, and rock. You are that force that moves the wind and breathes through your body. The whole universe is a living being that is moved by that force, and that is what you are. You are Life. Miguel Angel Ruiz
• I am God! I am nothing, I’m play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak. Alexander Scriabin
• Life is simply ‘living’ life and IT does it also as ‘you.’ Leo Hartong
• What you are is a force–a force that makes it possible for your body to live, a force that makes it possible for your whole mind to dream…You are life. Miguel Angel Ruiz
• I am the life-force power of the universe. I am the life-force power of the 50 trillion beautiful molecular geniuses that make up my form, at one with all that is. Jill Bolte Taylor
• We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars. Alan Chadwick
• Who are we? We are the life-force power of the universe. Jill Bolte Taylor
• We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts. Ray Bradbury
• God made us angels of energy, encased in solids – currents of life dazzling through a material bulb of flesh. Paramahansa Yogananda
• What is liberation? It is to be free of personal identity. It is to recognise that you are not an object, that this body is an inadequate representation of being, and only a vessel through which consciousness and the vital force act in their portrayal called ‘life’. Mooji
• Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect. Eckhart Tolle
• The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment. Rabindranath Tagore
• Many expressions that are in common usage and sometimes the structure of language itself, reveal the fact that people don’t know who they are. You say, “He lost his life.” Or, “my life” as if life were something that you can possess or lose. The truth is you don’t have a life, you are life, the one life, the one conscious that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or a blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy. Can you sense deep within that you already know that. Can you sense that you already are that? Eckhart Tolle
• I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am. Eckhart Tolle
• Accept your own divinity. Everything is a manifestation of God. When you know that, the power that is LIFE is inside you, you accept your own divinity, and yet you are humble, because you see that see the same divinity in everyone else. Don Miguel Ruiz

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To sense the life within us is to sense God within…

• Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows. Rainer Maria Rilke
• I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth. Rainer Maria Rilke
• In the stillness of your presence you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature.  You can look beyond the veil of form and separation.  This is the realization of oneness.  This is love.  Eckhart Tolle
• Your inner body is not solid but spacious. It is not your physical form but the life that animates the physical form. It is the intelligence that created and sustains the body, simultaneously coordinating hundreds of different functions of such extraordinary complexity that the human mind can only understand a tiny fraction of it. When you become aware of it, what is really happening is that the intelligence is becoming aware of itself. It is the elusive “life” that no scientist has ever found because the consciousness that is looking for it is it. Eckhart Tolle
• To be unable to feel the life that animates the physical body, the very life that you are, is the greatest deprivation that can happen to you. You then begin to look not only for substitutes for that natural state of well-being within, but also for something to cover up the continuous unease that you feel when you are not in touch with the aliveness that is always there but usually overlooked. Eckhart Tolle
• By becoming aware of the space of Now, you suddenly feel more alive inside. You are feeling the aliveness of the inner body—the aliveness that is an intrinsic part of the joy of Being. Eckhart Tolle
• Without perceiving things through the old filter of past conditioning and conceptualization, one can sense the universe is intensely alive. Even so-called inanimate objects – I often pick up little objects and just look at them and sense that they are alive. Physicists actually confirm that what we perceive as dead matter is not dead at all. Everything is an intensely alive energy field. That aliveness is only an aspect of the aliveness or life that I am. Eckhart Tolle
• Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Noticing what is happening in the body does not simply awaken you to the life all around you. It awakens you to the realization that you are life itself. The aliveness in your body is there to wake you up out of the dream of a separate self. Feel the sensations throughout the body no matter what you are doing. Notice that there is always a sense of aliveness within. Aliveness cannot be found in time or manufactured. It is what is already happening within the body right now. If anger or fear arises, notice it without judgment. If judgments about these emotions arise, simply notice them also. Notice that these thoughts and emotions are harmless when they are seen the moment they arise. This is not a prescription to engage in a spiritual practice. This is an invitation to notice what is already being done. Are you ‘doing’ emotions? They are arising involuntarily and spontaneously, aren’t they? If you had a choice, would you choose fear or anger? Are you ‘doing’ aliveness? The aliveness in your body, from your feet to your head, is just happening. You aren’t bringing it about. Simply notice the aliveness that is already happening. Notice that this aliveness is everywhere, not just in the body. In that noticing, life is waking up to itself as One Life. Scott Kiloby

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…to sense our oneness with God

• If we go deep enough, we discover that we are God, The Source of all life. We are also life in all its manifestations. David Sunfellow
• God, the Sole Life, is Absolute Unity. Paramahansa Yogananda
• That has been my personal relationship with God–a connection with the powerful, loving, wise energy in all of us, in all creation. It is the life force itself.  We can all have contact with it each moment in our lives, but it takes commitment and practice.  We must be willing to move through all our deepest fears, doubts, and misunderstandings.  Shakti Gawain
• What is God? God is the eternal one life underneath all the forms of life.  What is love?  Love is to feel the presence of that one life deep within yourself and within all creatures.  To be it.  Therefore, all love is the love of God.  Eckhart Tolle
• Enlightenment is your realisation of your oneness with the Universal One Life. Eckhart Tolle
• We each have a sixth sense that is attuned to the oneness dimension in life, providing a means for us to guide our lives in accord with our ideas. Henry Reed
• Life in its infinite forms exists as one organic unity. We are part of it: the part should feel reverence for the whole. Rajneesh
• You are a temporary expression of the One Eternal Life. Eckhart Tolle
• The heart of the matter is always our oneness with divine spirit, our union with all life. Nhat Hanh
• You don’t ‘have’ a life, you ‘are’ life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy. Eckhart Tolle

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We are not separate from life and therefore not separate from God

• You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.” Eckhart Tolle
• Life is not separate from us, and It wants us to be happy. Roger Stephens
• Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being. In form, you are and will always be inferior to some, superior to others. In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. Eckhart Tolle
• The sapling doesn’t want anything because it is at one with the totality, and the totality acts through it. “Look at the lilies of the field, how they grow” said Jesus, “They toil not, neither do they spin. Yet even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” We could say that the totality – Life – wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn’t see itself as separate from life and so wants nothing for itself. It is one with what Life wants. That’s why it isn’t worried or stressed. And if it has to die prematurely, it dies with ease. It is as surrendered in death as it is in life. It senses, no matter how obscurely, its rootedness in Being, the formless and eternal one Life. Eckhart Tolle
• If I and life are two, if I am separate from life, then I am separate form all things, all beings, all people. But how could I be separate from life? What “I” could be there apart from life, apart from Being? It is utterly impossible. So there is no such thing as “my life,” and I don’t have a life. I am life. I and life are one. It cannot be otherwise. So how could I lose my life? How can I lose something that I don’t have in the first place? How can I lose something that I Am? It is impossible. Eckhart Tolle
• This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole… Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon mother earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you. Erwin Schrodinger
• The Way is like the veins that circulate blood through our bodies, following the natural flow of the life force. If you are separated in the slightest from that divine essence, you are far off the path. Morihei Ueshiba

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To experience life as our inner most being is to become at peace with our life situation

• There is nothing wrong with striving to improve your life situation. You can improve your life situation, but you cannot improve your life. Life is primary. Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect. Your life situation consists of your circumstances and your experiences. There is nothing wrong with setting goals and striving to achieve things. The mistake lies in using it as a substitute for the feeling of life, for Being. The only point of access for that is the Now. You are then like an architect who pays no attention to the foundation of a building but spends a lot of time working on the superstructure. Eckhart Tolle

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If Life is God, then God is living through us

• Acceptance is realized when you see that life is living itself. Life takes no effort. You are life. You cannot become or do anything to bring about what you already are. The very movement to change, neutralize, or overcome the present moment is, by its very nature, non-acceptance of what is. Scott Kelby
• Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don’t live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer and you are the dance. Eckhart Tolle  
• I just had this overwhelming sense that Life was enjoying being me – watching the flames, feeling the warmth and the loving glow in my heart. Tim Freke
• To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of a stream of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future. Bertrand Russell
• Form is emptiness and emptiness is form. You are emptiness, manifesting as that temporary body and as every other body and form. In recognizing that you are life appearing as all these forms, life naturally takes care of itself. Scott Kiloby

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Life, the essence of God, is conscious awareness in action…

• Awareness and Life are synonymous terms. Awareness is the action of God, the activity of Mind, the Life that God is. Indeed, the consciousness presently reading these words, that perceives the scene outside, that hears the rustle of pots and pans in the kitchen and gathers in the evergreen thoughts and feelings of the Season, is the living that God is, the awareness that Mind is, the all and only perceiving of Deity going on. This consciousness right here and now is the life divine that never ends-the awareness of God. William Samuel
• Do not think of yourself as the body, but as the joyous consciousness and immortal life behind it. Paramahansa Yogananda
• In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit. Deepak Chopra
• Life is consciousness. Emmet Fox
• Underlying the sense-perceived universe there is the un-manifested life: the eternal one consciousness out of which every life form emerges. And you are that. Adyashanti
• Consciousness is creative and intelligent. It can correlate a quadrillion brain connections or the fifty processes that a liver cell performs. It can keep track of simultaneous activities at the same time (allowing you to breathe, digest, walk, be pregnant, think about your baby, and feel happy at the same time). Deepak Chopra   
• Life is an expression of eternal consciousness, and therefore, actual, real death is not a possibility. David R. Hawkins
• There is a celestial mind-force, a great sympathetic force which is life itself, of which everything is composed. John Ernst Worrell Keely
• Your physical body, which is form, reveals itself as essentially formless when you go deeper into it. It becomes a doorway into inner space. Although inner space has no form, it is intensely alive. That “empty space” is life in its fullness, the unmanifested Source out of which all manifestation flows. The traditional word for that Source is God. Eckhart Tolle
• Power is the active force in life. It is the force that makes awareness. The general term for spiritual power is kundalini. Kundalini is the energy of life that creates awareness. Frederick Lenz
• The spark of awareness in life, the spark of awareness in all, is the same before it finds a mode of observation. Deepak Chopra 
• God is not found in places. God is found in consciousness. Joel Goldsmith  

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…creating the power to perceive…

• God is the life behind your life, the sight behind your eyes, the taste behind your tongue, and the love behind your love. To realize this to the fullest extent is Self-realization. Without God’s power you can do nothing. If you always hold this thought, you cannot go wrong, because you will have purified the temple of your mind and your soul with the vibrations of God. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Life is the power to perceive. Without perception there is no life. Frederick Lenz
• Is our life then not simply a succession of appearances, all appearing to this Consciousness that we are? Rupert Spira
• What is birth and death but the beginning and the ending of a stream of events in consciousness? Nisargadatta Maharaja
• Life is one present play of appearances: sights, sounds, smells, thoughts, feelings, experiences, states, and other things. Scott Kiloby
• Existence must begin with life and perception. Indeed, what could existence mean, absent consciousness of any kind?  Robert Lanza

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…and thereby enjoy experience

• All life is an experience. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Every moment is an experience. Jake Roberts
• Life is a conspiracy to shower you with a nonstop feast of interesting experiences. Rob Brezsny
• Life is a transformative process that involves a vast spectrum of experiences. Tim Free
• Life is a succession of experiences. Anthony Lambert
• Life is the movie you see through your own unique eyes. Denis Waitley
• I am spacious awareness within which my experience of life is arising. Tim Freke 
• Life is the universe’s way of experiencing itself. Awareness is Life’s way of experiencing the universe. Anthony Lambert
• Living is not the story of your life. Living is the process of experiencing right now. Werner Erhart
• I am awareness witnessing an ever-changing flow of experiences that I call ‘life’. Tim Freke

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Life is none other than God experiencing through all life forms…

• God is experiencing life through “you” and “me” in this very moment of now. Anthony Lambert
• Each person’s life – each life form, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself. Eckhart Tolle
• Pure consciousness is life before it comes into manifestation and that life looks at the world of form through your eyes because consciousness is who you are. Eckhart Tolle
• Life remains. Consciousness needs a vehicle and an instrument for its manifestation. When life produces another body, another knower comes into being. Nisargadatta Maharaja
• Realize that the “I am” that is your essential self, the pure consciousness that lies behind all experience, is God. Peter Russell
• As life has become more complex, so the capacity of Consciousness to experience through form has evolved. Anthony Lambert
• The Divine is present in everyone, in all beings, in everything. Like space it is everywhere, all pervading, all powerful, all knowing. The Divine is the principle of Life, the inner light of consciousness, and pure bliss. It is our very own Self. Amma
• I just had this overwhelming sense that Life was enjoying being me – watching the flames, feeling the warmth and the loving glow in my heart. There was both no-one here and of course someone here, both enjoying the fire. Tim Freaked
• Consciousness—that in you which is aware of your experience in this moment. Sam Harris

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…God coming to know Itself through form

• The fundamental motif at the heart of many ancient myths is that the primal oneness of being is manifesting as the multiplicity of life, so that it can come to know itself. As the Gnostic sage Simon Magus says in ‘The Great Announcement’: There is one power… begetting itself, increasing itself, seeking itself, finding itself… One root of the All.  Tim Freke
• We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself. Brian Cox
• The form I take is a portal for the source and creator of life to have an experience of life. The form I take is a portal for the formless to experience being form. The form I take is a portal for the infinite to experience being finite. The form I take is a portal for the eternal to experience being temporary. Anthony Lambert
• The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties… Meher Baba
• Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence. Alan Wilson Watts
• Sight, sound, and all other qualities arose so that the universal mind could experience itself. Deepak Chopra

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Therefore, the very purpose of life is to experience it…

• Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Living is life’s only purpose. Nisargadatta Maharaja
• Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it. Marcia Wieder
• Life’s worth is not defined by external success, but by your collection of experiences. Tim Hansel
• The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. Eleanor Roosevelt
• Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Soren Kierkegaard
• If you are life worthy, you can take it. What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure. Tim Freke
• My life. The life I’m living that’s where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences. Fred Durst
• Living is life’s only purpose. Nisargadatta Maharaja
• Life is not a problem. To look at it as a problem is to take a wrong step. It is a mystery to be lived, loved, experienced. Rajneesh
• I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. Joseph Campbell
• There is life only and all talk of personalities and individualities has no foundation in reality. While life need not and cannot be described, it can be fully experienced, if the obstacles to its being experienced are removed. Jiddu Krishnamurti

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…to allow God to experience life fully through us

• What is life? The eternal process of giving creative expression to the unbounded and unique potentialities of the Divine Awareness, thus expanding its creative powers, allowing it to experience new worlds, and to take on ever new bodily shapes and forms.  Peter Winberg

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If God is life, then to love life is to love God…

• Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. And while there is life, there is delight in the self-awareness of the divinity. To love life is to love God. The hardest and most blissful thing is to love this life in one’s suffering, in the guiltlessness of suffering. Leo Tolstoy
• To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one’s sufferings, in undeserved sufferings. Leo Tolstoy
• The most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life is God, and to love Life means to love God. Leo Tolstoy
• I love life…. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life. Albert Camus
• Love the life you live. Live the life you love. Bob Marley

…which allows life to love you back

• Love life and life will love you back. Arthur Rubinstein
• If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us. Daisaku Ikeda
• Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you. Peace Pilgrim
• The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. Oprah Winfrey
• Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us. John Mitchell
• Life is a mirror. If you smile, it smiles back at you; if you frown, it frowns back. William P. Magee
• [When the] present moment is treated as if it were an enemy, when you hate what you are doing, complain about your surroundings, curse things that are happening … then you are making Life into an enemy and Life says, “War is what you want, and war is what you get.” External reality, which always reflects back to you your inner state, is then experienced as hostile. Eckhart Tolle
• Life is happy when we are happy. Roger Stephens
• Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you. Maya Angelou

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Therefore, love life with all your heart and soul

• Treat every moment of your life with Divine respect. Love passionately your God-given miraculous life. Robert Muller
• All God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That’s the whole point. Paul Simon
• Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch. Sylvia Plath
• Never fall out of love with life. Judi Dench
• If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be. Frederick Lenz
• Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you’ve got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it. Maya Angelou
• Respect Life and Life will respect You. Love Life and Love will shower Blessings on You. Rajneesh
• I love life. I love life to death. Emmanuelle Riva
• Love the life you live. Live the life you love. Bob Marley
• If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory. Marguerite Yourcenar
• Love of self and love of life connects us with the prosperity of the Universe. Louise Hay
• Be in love with your life, every detail of it. Jack Kerouac
• Love is the energy of life. Robert Browning
• To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life’s inmost secrets. Khalil Gibran
• Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don’t, you don’t. Mignon McLaughlin
• I love life in spite of all that mars it. Tahar Ben Jelloun
• To love oneself is to love life. Matthieu Ricard
• Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly. Paulo Coelho
• When the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us. Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The lover of life makes the whole world into his family. Charles Baudelaire
• I’m afraid I’m an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer. Edith Wharton

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The very essence of life itself is now, always now

• This moment, this being, is the thing. My life is all life in little. Alexander Eliot
• Your life is right now! Esther Hicks
• Not the past, not the future, life is now. Rickson Gracie
• Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be. Eckhart Tolle
• The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you. John Ortberg
• Life is now in session. Are you present? John C. Maxwell
• Here’s the thing: life is now. It’s not ten pounds from now, it’s not twenty pounds from now, it’s not a million dollars from now. It’s right now. And you just have to take a chance. Jillian Michaels
• Make each day your masterpiece. Life is now. Life is not later on. John Wooden
• Life is now… this day, this hour…and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have. Charles Macomb Flandrau
• It is good to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now – this day – this hour. Charles Macomb Flandrau
• You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. Ernest Hemingway
• Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now-this day-this hour. Charles Macomb Flandrau
• The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds. Eckhart Tolle
• Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Life is available only in the present moment. Thich Nhat Hanh
• This moment is all we ever have. Robert Beno
• Only the present moment contains life. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life. Eckhart Tolle
• The most precious thing in life is the present moment, the timeless ‘now’; for this timeless ‘now’ is all there is in life. For anything to be precious in life, it has to exist in life, and the only thing that exists in life is this timeless moment – the ‘now.’ Dr. Vijai Shankar
• Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is. Eckhart Tolle
• Your life is not between the moments of your birth and death. Your life is between now and your next breath. The present – the here and now – is all the life you ever get.  Marc and Angel Chernoff
• Forget about your life situation and pay attention to your life. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your life situation is mind-stuff. Your life is real. Eckhart Tolle

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Therefore, by embracing now, we love God…

• God is life. God is life in action. The best way to say, “I love you, God,” is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, “Thank you, God,” is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now. Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment. Letting go of the past means you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now. Miguel Angel Ruiz
• Being a lover of life means being open to the present moment as a precious opportunity to experience the richness of life and feel its transformational power. Tim Freke
• The present moment is inseparable from life, so you are really deciding what kind of a relationship you want to have with life. Eckhart Tolle
• Life is the ultimate Goddess and she’s always open to ravishment. And how do you ravish her? By penetrating this very moment. For that is the very core of her being. Anthony Lambert

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…and become one with God

• Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don’t live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer and you are the dance. Eckhart Tolle  

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If God is life, then God has no will per se…

• Though divine energy is life producing, it does not direct life in any given way or toward a given end. God as energy cannot be said to have a will per se. Flora A. Keshgegian
• Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads. George Bernard Shaw

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…except to enable and sustain life for its own sake

• However, the dynamic motion of God as energy is not totally random. We can speak of purpose to the extent that God as energy enables life. The purpose of divine power, as energy, is life. The divine energizes into existence. God is the energy of and for life. Flora A. Keshgegian
• This universe of energy is what makes life happen. What is fundamental to life, what is the really real, is pulsating, interacting, interrelating movement. There is, however, no given end built into existence other than life itself. Life is open, the future open ended. There is no fixed essence or even existence that is particular to the life of any given thing. Flora A. Keshgegian
• There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live. Dick Gregory
• We can imagine God as energy as having a kind of intent. The inclination of that intent is for life, to enable life, and keep life going. It may follow then that goodness and even love, as ascribed to God, are functions of God as source and energy for life. In other words, it is not so much that God loves, since love is a human, and perhaps animal, emotion, but we can say that the but we can say that the life that God as energy makes possible is experienced as love. Flora A. Keshgegian
• We might think of such energy as the life force of the universe. Its power is of and for life. If we can speak of any directing purpose, it is for life. The universe keeps going, both in the sense of constant motion and dynamism but also in the sense that life seeks life. Life is ongoing. Flora A. Keshgegian

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If God is life, then we know life is inherently good…

• God wants you to have a good life, a life filled with love, joy, peace, and fulfillment. That doesn’t mean it will always be easy, but it does mean that it will always be good. Joel Osteen
• We are all dropped into our lives on this planet with a limited amount of time and cosmic understanding, yet we know one thing for certain: we wish to live. We share this yearning for life and love with all the beings that fly, grow, slither or swim amongst us. Ian Somerhalder
• God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God. Mahatma Gandhi
• Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. Nhat Hanh
• God is not good per se, but because we experience life as a good thing and God as energy makes life possible, we perceive God as good. We are glad to be alive, glad to be part of the universe. We give thanks to the God of life. Flora A. Keshgegian

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… not just the light, but the shade too

• The life of God – the life which the mind apprehends and enjoys as it rises to the absolute unity of all things – may be described as a play of love with itself; but this idea sinks to an edifying truism, or even to a platitude, when it does not embrace in it the earnestness, the pain, the patience, and labor, involved in the negative aspect of things. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• If you are life worthy, you can take it. What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure. Tim Freke
• All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade. Leo Tolstoy
• My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada. Ellen DeGeneres
• Moments of splendour and moments of gloom – they help maintain life’s balance. One thought is key: they all pass. Joan Marques
• I love the word ‘juxtapose,’ … I like balancing words together like cruel and gentle, sad and beautiful. Life is not all black and white — it’s shaded. Charlie Sexton

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Life is not to be feared

• The fear of life is the favourite disease of the 20th century. William Lyon Phelps

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Life is sacred

• It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be. Cheryl Strayed
• Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment. Paulo Coelho
• There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred. Nat Hentoff
• Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate. Albert Einstein
• Life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. Scott Cloud Lee
• Every form of life is sacred. It is not possible to have an activity that is not sacred…Coming to see everything as sacred and honouring everything is spiritual development. Gary Zukav
• A reverence for life needs to be developed, in which all things are sacred. Frederick Lenz
• Appreciate the sacred life you have, it is a gift from God. Lailah Gifty Akita
• When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings. Michael Jackson
• I began to see my life and each breath I am given as a living prayer to God and a way to pray for others for our world. Mary C. Neal

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Life is holy

• Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life. Rajneesh
• For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life. William Blake
• My child, everything in life is holy. Neale Donald Walsch
• The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves. Terry Tempest Williams
• Life is holy and it is for all of us. Sionil José
• People call books holy, but they are yet to realize that life is holy. Jaggi Vasudev
• How do we remain faithful to our own spiritual imagination and not betray what we know in our own bodies? The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Terry Tempest Williams
• When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: Ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul. Harold S. Kushner

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Life is blessed

• We can create a joyful life by flowing our thoughts towards the basic blessedness of life, the blessedness of Existence itself. Not the blessedness of material wealth or possessions, career or health, relationships or family, though these are blessings indeed. I’m talking about the blessedness of Existence…of I am here, I’m still standing, I am breathing, I AM life…and change is the natural order of things… Heather Fraser

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Life is miraculous

• Life has the almost magical ability to heal and regenerate itself, to replicate and recreate itself, to adapt and develop, survive and multiply, diversify and specialise. Concrete over the earth and life will spring through, pushing up between the cracks, breaking out into the light. And life is even able to hold its own against the universal forces of entropy and disintegration, by borrowing energy from the Sun (light again). Harvey Edser

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Life is worthy of great reverence

• I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics. Albert Schweitzer
• By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world. By practicing reverence for life, we become good, deep, and alive. Albert Schweitzer
• If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life. Albert Schweitzer
• Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will. Albert Schweitzer
• It is our duty to share and maintain life. Reverence concerning all life is the greatest commandment in its most elementary form. Or expressed in negative terms: “thou shalt not kill.” Albert Schweitzer
• Practice being gentle, respectful and loving toward the life force in all things. Wayne Dyer
• Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the center, and defends and promotes life against all the mechanisms of death, desiccation, or stagnation. Leonardo Boff

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Reverence for life is at the heart of all true morality

• Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life. Albert Schweitzer
• Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world — that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me — is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life. Albert Schweitzer
• Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal. Albert Schweitzer

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To know that life is good helps us hold on when it gets difficult

• We could claim that God as Persistent Life not only fosters transformation, but also enables us to “hold on” or “carry on” when we have given up on life, or forgotten the possibility that newness can emerge out of what seems like only death. Carolyn Jane Bohler
• Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us. William James

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If God is life, then life is eternal

• Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal. Eckhart Tolle
• When you’ve seen beyond yourself then you may find peace of mind is waiting there And the time will come when you see we’re all one and life flows on within you and without you. John Lennon & Paul McCartney
• The miracle of life is ageless, born in time but nourished in eternity. Course in Miracles
• Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars. H. G. Wells
• Life is an expression of eternal consciousness, and therefore, actual, real death is not a possibility. David R. Hawkins
• We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. Paulo Coelho
• Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight. Rossiter W. Raymond
• Immortal and eternal can also mean that God is life unending. Just as energy is never lost but only changes forms, the divine power that is life remains and endures. Flora A. Keshgegian
• Life endures, but it is also ever challenged. Such is the nature of reality. Flora A. Keshgegian

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Death is part of life and is therefore also divine

• Death is one of the beads strung into a circle.  If you follow those beads one after another, you will come back to Life again. Inuo Taguchi
• Death always accompanies Life as shade always accompanies its tree. Inuo Taguchi
• To live in God is death; to die in God is life. Edouard Rene de Laboulaye
• There is no life without death. Kyle Idleman
• The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. Hermann Hesse
• Life and death make a meaningful whole. Etty Hillesum
• Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it. Haruki Murakami
• It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made. Mitch Albom
• Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. YODA
• Death is the side of life which is turned away from us. Rainer Maria Rilke
• Death is the sleeping partner of life. Eliza Cook
• For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. Kahlil Gibran
• God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled.
• The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life; to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the the inviolable condition of life. Thomas Mann
• What is Death? Death is the ending of life. When people die, their bodies stop working. The heart stops beating and the brain stops functioning. People have always wanted to learn the secret of living forever. In ancient times, explorers and scientists searched for the secret of eternal life. The truth is, nothing can live forever. Everyone and everything will die in time. Plants, animals, and people all die. Death is a natural part of life. Joanne Mattern
• The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? Edgar Allan Poe
• Life and death are different sides of the same coin. Neil Gaiman

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Life flows continuously on…

• Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions. Andre Luiz Moreira
• The Earth never ceases to spin. All life is dancing : The trees, the wind, the sea. Daisaku Ikeda
• Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. … we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living. Amelia Barr
• The circle of life never ceases, thus change is inevitable. Suzanne Steele
• In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost
• Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on. Robert Brault
• No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. Maya Angelou
• Life moves on. Henry Miller
• Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Elizabeth Scott
• No matter what you think-life goes on and the world still turns and the universe has its own story. Bill Cosby
• One thing always sure. Life go on with you or without you, no matter how much you seen. Lalita Tademy
• Things change. Stuff happens. Life goes on. Elizabeth Scott
• I’m not going to hold my breath because life goes on. Life is too short to sit around moaning about what could have been or what was. Tina Weymouth
• Regardless of how it goes down, life goes on. Rick Ross
• Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on. David Levithan
• Life goes on after sorrow, in spite of sorrow, as a defense against sorrow. Cornelia Meigs
• Endings are never neat, because when life goes on, there is no end. You may want to speculate about what the characters get up to afterwards, but I feel it would be presumptuous of me to dictate that. Stef Penney
• Because life goes on. The birds do their thing, and the bees do theirs. Seeds get scattered, and everything grows back. Kami Garcia
• Without death and decay, how could life go on? John Burroughs
• Life goes on within you and without you. George Harrison
• We’re all expendable. We think the world’s going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then… life goes on. Sylvester Stallone
• Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads). Khaled Hosseini
• And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you’re watching someone die. But there’s a joy and an abundance of everything, like information and laughter and summer weather and so many stories. Melina Marchetta
• That’s what History teaches us, I think, that life goes on, even though individuals die and whole civilizations crumble away: The simple things last; they are repeated over and over by each generation. Philip Reeve

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…and continues to exist in the root of things, even when things wither on the surface

• Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away—an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains. Carl Jung
• Death is part and parcel of life. With every death comes a new birth; with every birth comes an eventual death. Celestine Chua
• That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things. Rudolf Steiner

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If God is life, then God is that which affirms, energises and empowers life

• What is “good”? Anything that supports LIFE and overcomes obstructions to life – whether creatively or destructively. Peter Wilberg
• What is of God is life-giving. What is not life-giving is not of God and, therefore, does not call for our allegiance. Something is life-giving if it empowers, enhances, and deepens the flourishing of creation, including human persons, and if it enables life to go on. This understanding of life does not automatically cally exclude death when it is a natural part of life and of finitude. Flora A. Keshgegian
• A measure of our knowledge of God… is whether it is life-giving. If God is power for life, redeeming life, then who God is and who we are in relation to God should foster and produce life. The meaning of redemption is such life, lived fully and abundantly. Abundant life is lived best if it includes justice and care, peace and well-being. Flora A. Keshgegian
• All that is not God is death. George MacDonald
• Questions to ask of any metaphor for God include: Does this metaphor foster life? Does what is attributed to God enhance life? Does this way of understanding God and the world support the life of the world? Flora A. Keshgegian
• Ask whether they work, so to speak, in our day, in our context, to enhance and deepen and renew life. Ultimately, that question has to be asked and answered again and again in every circumstance. The answer is always context specific and always complex. It requires discernment. Flora A. Keshgegian
• Life is also the evaluative principle by which knowledge of God is discerned and measured. Only that which enhances life need command our full allegiance. Key questions of discernment follow from this evaluative principle: What is the potential for life? What is more life-giving and sustaining of life for all-not only for an individual, but for a community. Flora A. Keshgegian
• The question-whose side is God on? – is probably one that most people have asked, in one form or another, at some point in their lives. As I have tried to make clear, the answer is: God is on the side of life. This affirmation does not mean that bad things do not happen. Nor does it mean that violence and harm are not part of life. It does mean, however, that the divine seeks life. Flora A. Keshgegian
• Underlying this approach is a core assumption: What is of God is life-giving. What is not life-giving is not of God, and therefore does not call for our allegiance. Something is life-giving if it empowers, enhances, and deepens the flourishing of creation, including human persons, and if it enables life to go on. This understanding of life does not automatically exclude death when it is a natural part of life and of finitude. Life may even include certain forms of violence within and among species. In other words, not everything that contributes to life ongoing is necessarily or always experienced as desirable.  Flora A. Keshgegian

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Life is energised by giving and receiving

• Receiving and giving are opposite energies that are inextricably linked together in the natural flow of life, like inhaling and exhaling. If one aspect of that cycle doesn’t function, the entire cycle ceases to function and the life force cannot move freely. Shakti Gawain
• Being of service is not an option, it is a biological necessity. Every kind of action we do for someone is a reanimation of our own life force – and of the other person’s. Caroline Myss

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Life is energised by loving ourselves

• Feeling unworthy is like putting a huge obstacle into the God force, into the life force which is everywhere. Wayne Dyer

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Life is energised by faith

• Faith is the “eternal elixir” which gives life, power and action to the impulse of thought! Napoleon Hill
• This is the adventure of faith: becoming ourselves more and more aware of the whole that is endless and ever beyond our knowing fully. The word adventure includes “advent” which means “coming to.” In this life we are ever coming to life and life is ever coming to us. The encounter with God is eternal advent. We pray for openness to that coming, openness to life. May the energy at the heart of all, ever dynamic and connecting, abound. May life renew itself again and again. Flora A. Keshgegian

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Life is energised by exploration and discovery

• Travel brings power and love back into your life. Rumi

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Life is energised by integrity

• Our vitality is rooted in our integrity. When we do not live in one piece, our life force becomes divided. Becoming separated from our authentic values may weaken us. Rachel Naomi Remen

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Life is energised by enthusiasm

• How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is. Joseph Campbell

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Life is energised by laughter

• Laughter is life-giving. It makes you breathe.  Kristin Chenoweth
• Laughter heals, gives solace, and is life enhancing. Liz Carpenter
• Laughter is the best medicine for a long and happy life. He who laughs lasts! Wilferd Peterson
• Mirth is God’s medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Henry Ward Beecher

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Life is energised by joy

• Surely joy is the condition of life. Henry David Thoreau
• Joy is the life of man’s life. Benjamin Whichcote
• This joy you feel is life. Gertrude Stein
• I am the joy of life expressing and receiving in perfect rhythm. Louise Hay
• When you know who you truly are, there is an abiding alive sense of peace. You could call it joy because that’s what joy is: vibrantly alive peace. It is the joy of knowing yourself as the very life essence before life takes on form. That is the joy of Being – of being who you truly are.  Eckhart Tolle
• It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flowers. Rabindranath Tagore
• Joy is one of nature’s greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal. Catherine Ponder

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Most of all, life is energised by love

• Love is the energy of life. Robert Browning
• When fear dissolves, you no longer separate yourself from this single flow of immense force. Love is continuity with infinite life force, a Oneness of being with no separation. Love is the key to opening to this flow of life force. David Deida
• The burst of well-being you feel when you fall in love is due to the fact that you unconsciously open the channels of awareness that allow more Life Force to flow. Deepak Chopra
• As we begin to love and appreciate ourselves as we are, our channels open and we access the infinite vitality of life force. Shakti Gawain
• The moment you become capable of deep love, life becomes god. It is a transfiguration of the same energy. Rajneesh
• Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes. Harry Emerson Fosdick
• Where there is love there is life. Mahatma Gandhi
• Maybe love is like rain…. When it rains, when we love, life grows.  Carol Gilligan
• Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys. William George Jordan
• Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness of the indefinite, toward the mystic dream of Love, between the fire which devours itself and the silence of the Cold. Albert Claude

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Life, the essence of God, is the flow of love…

• Love is life… Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.  Leo Tolstoy
• For love … is the blood of life, the power of reunion in the separated. Paul Tillich
• A life without love is of no account. Elif Safak
• Life is a flow of love, only your participation is requested. Harbhajan Singh Yogi
• Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. Leo Buscaglia
• Whoever lives true life, will love true love.  Elizabeth Barrett 
• The moment you become capable of deep love, life becomes god. It is a transfiguration of the same energy. Rajneesh

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…and the expression of this love is the very purpose of Life

• Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. Leo Buscaglia
• Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. Khalil Gibran
• If you have not learned to be a passionate lover, do not count your life as lived. On the day of reckoning, it will not be counted. Rumi
• A life without love is like a tree without fruit. Stephen King

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If God is life, then life is the energy with which God creates the whole world…

• It’s said that when we die, the four elements – earth, air, fire and water – dissolve one by one, each into the other, and finally just dissolve into space. But while we’re living, we share the energy that makes everything, from a blade of grass to an elephant, grow and live and then inevitably wear out and die. This energy, this life force, creates the whole world. Pema Chodron
• The power is that which generated and maintains the universe… the life-force, the stuff of creation. It is the very substance of existence itself. Scott Cunningham
• Through scientific experiment they’ve demonstrated that there may be such a thing as a life force flowing through the universe – what has variously been called collective consciousness or, as theologians have termed it, the Holy Spirit. Lynne McTaggart
• ALL THINGS, material and spiritual, originate from one source and are related as if they were one family. The past, present, and future are all contained in the life force. The universe emerged and developed from one source, and we evolved through the optimal process of unification and harmonization. Morihei Ueshiba
• I think God is the creative force of the universe. I think it is the raw material from which life emerges. Neale Donald Walsch
• However, the dynamic motion of God as energy is not totally random. We can speak of purpose to the extent that God as energy enables life. The purpose of divine power, as energy, is life. The divine energizes into existence. God is the energy of and for life. Flora A. Keshgegian
• No intelligent supervisor, no mystic force, no conscious controlling agency swings the molecules into place at the right time, chooses the appropriate players, closes the links, uncouples the partners, moves them on. The dance of life is spontaneous, self-sustaining, and self-creating. Paul Davies

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…a dynamic energy in a constant state of change and flux

• Living things tend to change unrecognizably as they grow. Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? Flora or fauna, we are all shapeshifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves. Diane Ackerman
• The divine as energy for life is not fixed in any way. the divine itself is changing and so not determined or given.  God as energy is ever in motion and flux. Flora A. Keshgegian
• Life always delivers the creative energy you need to change into the new thing you must become. Rob Brezsny
• The driving force of the universe is life ongoing. Nothing is lost in creation, but nothing remains the same. Flora A. Keshgegian
• We also know that life has a “will” (of a kind), to self-organize, replicate, reproduce, sustain Itself, adapt, survive, multiply, grow, develop, heal and evolve. Poffo Ortiz

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This energy, the power of God, is our very life-force…

• He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God. Paramahansa Yogananda
• You need energy and life force to see and feel what you need to do. Otherwise you are in a dark room and you can’t tell what’s going on. You need to practice meditation. Frederick Lenz
• What you are is a force–a force that makes it possible for your body to live, a force that makes it possible for your whole mind to dream…You are life. Miguel Angel Ruiz
• There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life… Don’t look outside, look inside yourself and seek that.  Rumi
• The life-force may be the least understood force on earth. Norman Cousins
• The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living. Somerset Maugham
• We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars. Alan Chadwick
• Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life. Louis Schwartzberg
• The kundalini is the life force; it is the essential energy of existence. It is the hidden ingredient in life. It is what makes it all work. Frederick Lenz
• The fiery force is nothing more than the life force as we know it. It is the flame of desire and love, of sex and beauty, of pleasure and joy as we consume and are consumed, as we burn with pleasure and burn out in time. Harold Norse
• Even when our life is most difficult, it is important to remember that something within us is keeping us alive- the life force-that lift us, energizes us, pulls us back sometimes from the abyss of despair. True spirituality does not exist without love of life. Nathaniel Branden
• We’re blind, deaf and dumb. It is only that Self, which is our life force that makes who and what we are. The realization of that is self-realization. Frederick Lenz
• The Sacred isn’t housed in a building or worn around your neck or something in the sky. The Sacred is the here and now we reside in, all breathing the same air, all imbibing the same water and made of the same earth with ‘the life force’ flowing through all living things. Jaune Quick–to–See Smith
• Kundalini is the life force. It is given different names. They call it prana. They divide it into different segments, the apana and the samana; sometimes it’s called shakti. Nice names, it is energy. Frederick Lenz
• We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way. Audre Lorde
• Despite not being able to perceive the interpenetrating subtle energy with our five senses, to one degree or another we are all aware of it. The experiential religious traditions of the world—from yoga to Sufism, to charismatic Christianity, to tai chi—call these subtle energies life force. Working with life force is the heart of many alternative healing methods. Joseph Selbie
• Experiencing one’s life force more deeply is transformative. Joseph Selbie

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…a vital force that transcends physics and chemistry…

• Vitalists thought that organisms were more than machines: they were truly vital or alive. Over and above the laws of physics and chemistry, organising principles shaped the forms of living organisms, gave them their purposive behaviour, and underlay the instincts and intelligence of animals. Rupert Sheldrake
• A vital force is active in every individual and leads it towards its own evolution. Maria Montessori
• Since the only life you can have is the life of the Spirit within you, you need but permit Its radiance to flow through your thought into self-expression. You are surrounded by a dynamic force, a great surge of living power. You are immersed in and saturated with the vital essence of Life. Its presence permeates everything, binding all together in one complete whole. Ernest Holmes

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…and exists to be harnessed by us…

• God is power for life. Such power does not dominate or control. It does not even manage or direct. We need not submit to it. Our prayer then is not to be conformed to God’s will but to be open and receptive to life-giving power. When we pray we are seeking empowerment. Flora A. Keshgegian
• That has been my personal relationship with God-a connection with the powerful, loving, wise energy in all of us, in all creation. It is the life force itself. We can all have contact with it each moment in our lives, but it takes commitment and practice. We must be willing to move through all our deepest fears, doubts, and misunderstandings. Shakti Gawain
• Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish… The trouble is you won’t fight. You’ve given in, continually dwelling on sickness and death. But there’s something just as inevitable as death, and that’s life. Life, life, life. Think of all the power that’s in the universe, moving the earth, growing the trees. That’s the same power within you if you only have courage and the will to use it. Charlie Chaplin
• I know I can do so much more than this, I know that I could be a life force, could love with a heart full of soul, could feel with the power that flies men to the moon. Elizabeth Wurtzel
• There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of use as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment. Shakti Gawain
• When water is everywhere, it is a flood, but if it is in between banks, it is a river. It is nice to have a goal, so your life force gets channelized! Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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…and expressed freely and creatively

• God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself. Miguel Angel Ruiz
• There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. Martha Graham
• Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization. Rabindranath Tagore
• Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy. Julia Cameron

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We must take care of this precious life force to keep it flowing abundantly…

• Positive energy is your priceless life force. Protect it. Don’t allow people to draw from your reserves; select friends who recharge your energies … Chalene Johnson
• Take care of your life force and always keep it streaming. Always be active and creative, and never ever stop dreaming. Suzy Kassem
• Conserve the vital energy, follow a balanced diet, and always smile and be happy. He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God. If you feel that you can’t smile, stand before a mirror and with your fingers pull your mouth into a smile. It is that important! Paramahansa Yogananda
• The second doorway has to do with vitality. It’s about feeling alive, vital, and feeling the life-force flow through us. This doorway is also known as the creativity center and it houses a great sense of aliveness in it. Marci Shimoff
• Chakras are organizational centers for the reception, assimilation, and transmission of life-force energy. They are the stepping stones between heaven and earth. Anodea Judith
• If you want to live with spiritual security in the midst of constant change, you have to burn the flame of your life force in everything you do. Dainin Katagiri
• Consider for a moment what you pay attention to all day long. Write it down. Do not judge your answers. Be honest and simple. As you keep track all week long, you’ll be amazed at what claims your attention, what you give your precious life force to. Brenda Shoshanna

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…especially by bringing our attention to the present moment

• To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment. E Davey
• A strong life force can be seen in physical vitality, courage, competent judgment, self-mastery, sexual vigor, and the realization of each person’s unique talents and purpose in life. To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment. E Davey
• Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called “God.” As soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in your life, and all you are left with is the mental concept of God, which some people believe in and others deny. Even belief in God is only a poor substitute for the living reality of God manifesting every moment of your life. Eckhart Tolle

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Realise the power of this life force for health and healing…

• Medicine has its limitations while Life Force has none. Paramahansa Yogananda
• I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate – even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth. Norman Cousins
• Forgiveness and the release of the past open the creative flow of life, supporting all levels of mind, heart, body, emotion, and spirit. This energy flow determines the state of our health, our desire to create and procreate, our willingness to develop our gifts, and how we use or deny the life force that we are given as human beings. . . . Jamie Sams

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…and its immense power to affect the world

• The life-force of one human being can affect other living beings and even the fundamental being of humankind as a whole. Daisaku Ikeda

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If God is life, then life is God’s gift of Godself…

• The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now. Leo Babauta
• Life is a divine gift. The divine is not something outside of us; it is right in our very center; it is our freedom. Morihei Ueshiba
• Today I will gratefully receive all the gifts that life has to offer me. The gifts of nature, sunlight and the sounds of birds singing. Deepak Chopra
• Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. Marge Piercy
• Life is a gift and a challenge. Jay Payleitner
• Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. Mary Manin Morrissey
• Life is one of those precious fleeting gifts, and everything can change in a heartbeat.
• Life IS the gift you were given, so stop waiting around for your dues. Use it wisely and you’ll gift yourself abundantly. Michelle Geaney
• Each day, accept everything that comes to you as a gift. At night, mentally give it all back. In this way, you become free. Daniel Levin
• Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. Abraham Joshua Heschel
• It is great to love life. Accept life as a precious gift from the hand of God and strive to make the most of it. Wilferd Peterson
• Each day’s a gift of Life divine a precious jewel that’s yours and mine! John McLeod
• The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Life is a gift from God, an unlimited series of opportunities to find the good in ourselves and others. There is good in everything, if we are willing to see it. Alan Cohen
• Every day we live is a priceless gift of God, loaded with possibilities to learn something new, to gain fresh insights. Dale Evans
• Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift! Joyce Meyer
• Our life is a gift from God. What we do with that life is our gift to God. Samuel S. Sumner
• God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. Voltaire
• Your life is a gift. Before anything else can be said about you, for some reason the universe (or God, or being, or force, or reality, or whatever you name it) chose to give you life. Rob Bell
• If you feel just one thing in your life-that life is nothing but the gift of God-you are divine and the most courageous person. Try it! Try it as a thought. The moment you feel that life is a gift, you’ll become prosperous. Harbhajan Singh Yogi
• Life is a gift of the immortal Gods. Seneca the Younger
• What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. Eleanor Powell
• This day and your life are God’s gift to you – so give thanks and be joyful always. James M. Beggs
• Just to be physically alive is a tremendous miracle. To breathe, to feel, to be aware – these are unparalleled gifts. And there is I believe also a spiritual life that flows in us, making us alive more than biologically; alive to God. Harvey Edser

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…a gift to be embraced in the recognition that the purpose of life is life itself

• Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way. Johnny Cash
• Live fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating and adventuring. The actualizing of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime. Herbert Otto
• The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives. Clarence Darrow
• The primary purpose of life is in being in the NOW. Eckhart Tolle
• To me the purpose of life is to enjoy it! It’s to enjoy the gift, and to make sure that other people have an opportunity to enjoy the gift. Elizabeth Lesser
• The real purpose of anyone’s life is to be fully involved in living. Shannon Kaiser
• The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you. John Ortberg

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Our divine purpose becomes no less than to live life to the full…

• Love God, Embrace beauty, Live life to the fullest. Kyle Lake
• You are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out its own secret. Rainer Maria Rilke
• For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus
• Life becomes easier if you seize it by the lapel and go with it
• Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: “I am with you kid. Let’s go.”  Maya Angelou
• I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime. Robert Brault
• Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is Love, enjoy it! Sri Sathya Sai Baba
• To enjoy wind you must let it blow past you and feel it against bare flesh; the same is true of time, for the moment has always gone before it can be seized, and the same is true of life which not even this wall of flesh can hold forever. To feel and understand it you must let it blow past you like the wind as it moves across the earth from void to void. Alan Watts
• The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge. Jeremy Taylor

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…and to embrace the inner life as much as the outer

• Inner life is Divine. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body. Muhammad Iqbal
• The sound of life has divine silence. Kedar Joshi
• Divine life is basically the inner freedom to choose the right and the good spontaneously. Thomas Keating
• Each minute of life should be a divine quest. Paramahansa Yogananda

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If God is life, then life contains an infinite intelligence that we can surrender to

• While you are focused on doing something small and specific—reading these words—fifty trillion cells are upholding that tiny action. Cells are not fooled by their isolated situation as individuals. They operate from wholeness all the time. Each is leading a spiritual life that any saint would envy. Every cell follows a higher purpose, maintaining the whole body. Each cell knows its place in the body. It has total security. The body protects and embraces the life of every cell. Without judgment or prejudice, every cell is accepted. Deepak Chopra  
• Every cell lives in the moment, constantly renewed, never clinging to the old and outworn. The natural flow of life is trusted to operate with supreme efficiency. Individual cells are born and die, yet this all takes place against the body’s perfect balance. Deepak Chopra
• The Bauls say, “Don’t try to force anything.” Let life be a deep let-go. See God opening millions of flowers every day without forcing the buds, waiting, never in a hurry, giving their time to them. The Bauls say, “Everything happens at its right time, everything happens in its own season. Wait, don’t be impatient, don’t be in a hurry. All hurry is greed, and all hurry is a subtle fight.” That which is going to happen will happen. Whenever it is going to happen it will happen; you need not fight existence. You can surrender, you can trust. Rajneesh
• What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt held in cohesion by unresting cells. Which work they know not why, which never halt, myself unwitting where their Master dwells? John Edward Masefield

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We can learn to trust life…

• It’s not always about survival, this life we are given; it’s usually so much easier than that. It’s about trusting the eternal life force that is flowing within us-letting that force lead the way through all of the inevitable changes we will face across the span of our time here on Earth. Elizabeth Lesser
• Going with the flow is responding to cues from the universe. When you go with the flow, you’re surfing Life force. It’s about wakeful trust and total collaboration with what’s showing up for you. Danielle LaPorte
• You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Rainer Maria Rilke
• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always. Rainer Maria Rilke

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…especially when we come to realise that life always gives us exactly what we need

• Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment. Eckhart Tolle
• Everything that occurs in your life is part of God’s plan to wake you up. Leonard Jacobson
• Life gives you exactly what you need to awaken. Scott McLeod
• Everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth. M. Scott Peck
• Everything within my life – without exception – is a revelation and expression of That which is the Source of my own inevitable Awakening. Metta Zetty
• Everything that occurs in your life is part of God’s plan to wake you up. Leonard Jacobson
• God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way. S. Lewis
• The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out your attachment, your clinging, to pleasure, to pain, to fear, to all of it. And as long as there is a place where you’re vulnerable, the universe will find a way to confront you with it. Ram Dass
• God gives the exact experiences he wants them to have in order to shape the specific destiny he designed for them. Steven Furtick
• At the soul level, we get precisely what we need in our lives for our spiritual growth. How we judge what we get determines whether we experience life as painful or joyful. Colin Tipping
• You see, you learn from all your bad experiences, so they’re really positive. It’s all part of the cosmic knowing. Nina Hagen
• Life will bring us everything we need, to show us what we haven’t undone yet. Byron Katie

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Let go of the need to control life

• When we spend our time trying to control everything in our life it creates a blockage, we become static and removed from our journey and we blindfold our intuition. Louise Androila
• If life can manifest the DNA molecule on its own, not to mention create the human brain, how is it that we feel that we have to control everything on our own? Michael A. Singer
• This battle between individual will and the reality of life unfolding around us ends up consuming our lives. Michael A. Singer

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Surrender completely to life…

• Surrender, at its core, is the willingness to meet life as it is, to stop fighting with or trying to change what is so. Nancy Colier
• Surrender your life serenely, as serenely as the One who takes it from you. Marcus Aurelius
• Man holds dominion and was given free will but the irony is that he must learn to surrender his will — as life carries him through circumstances that prove he has no true power at all Kate McGahan
• May you find grace as you surrender to life. May you find happiness, as you stop seeking it. May you come to trust these laws and inherit the wisdom of the Earth. May you reconnect with the heart of nature and feel the blessings of Spirit. Dan Millman
• To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life, becoming lethargic, and so on. True surrender, however, is something entirely different. It does not mean to passively put up with whatever situation you find yourself in and to do nothing about it. Nor does it mean to cease making plans or initiating positive action. Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life. Eckhart Tolle
• Surrender is learning to get out of the way of what wants to happen naturally. Penney Peirce
• Yes! live life with every fibre of one’s being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless. Emile Zola
• And one of my absolute favorite quotes of all-time, one that I’ve adopted as one of my greatest life mottos: Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: “I’m with you kid. Let’s go. Maya Angelou

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…by surrendering to the now

• You simply have to surrender to the present moment. Be alert. Watch something in a state of alertness. Always, continuously, bring that into everyday life, not spirituality here and getting on with your life there. Eckhart Tolle
• Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity — which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem. Eckhart Tolle                                                   
• To practice, we simply surrender to what is, right now. We drop into our direct experience—what we are sensing, feeling, and living in this moment. We agree to feel life as it is, without our mind adding, taking away, manipulating, or doing anything whatsoever to it. Nancy Colier
• To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin’s terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. Rebecca Solnit
• Surrender and living in the present are one and the same. Mata Amritanandamayi
• My experiment with surrender had taught me to always be present in the current moment and do my best to not allow my personal preferences to make decisions for me. Instead, I allowed the reality of life to determine where I was going. Michael A. Singer

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Learn to flow with life

• Life is safe; flowing with the current of being is the simplest way to live. Resistance never really succeeds. Controlling the flow of life is impossible. Deepak Chopra
• Life is water, and we tend to push too hard, thrash about, force things, struggle. Instead, learn to float, learn to allow things to become effortless. Leo Babauta
• The moment – the now – is like a river, which carries you forward, ever-changing and ever moving. You either flow with this now or reject it and fight it, but that doesn’t stop the flow; it only determines your experience of it. Gina Lake
• When we surrender the illusion of control, we can then experience the presence of something larger and unknowable. We can experience ourselves flowing down the river that is life—the river we are actually part of. Then, having experienced surrender, we can relax and trust that it’s safe to let go. Nancy Colier
• I resolved to stop listening to all the chatter about my personal preferences, and instead, start the willful practice of accepting what the flow of life was presenting me. Michael A. Singer
• I was no longer in charge of my life. I was willing to roll the dice and let the flow of life be in charge. Michael A. Singer
• Let’s let go, and “go with the flow”. Being “in the flow” is thought-free, effortless, and focused merging of intention, action, and awareness as consciousness – consciously letting Life happen through you. Ron Rattner
• The processes that determine the flow of life around us did not begin when we were born, nor will they end when we die. Michael A. Singer
• The more you go with the flow of life and surrender the outcome to God, and the less you seek constant clarity, the more you will find that fabulous things start to show up in your life. Mandy Hale
• Surrender to life today. Don’t fight anything. Just enjoy the flow. Judith Orloff
• Surrender is like a fish finding the current and going with it. Mark Nepo
• Surrender is a true gift. It gives us the opportunity to feel the river of life carrying us, taking us where we need to go. Nancy Colier
• Surrender is a positive, healthy state. Being a surrendered person does not mean one is beaten down and so hopeless he or she has given up. It’s quite the contrary. Surrender is a state of living in the flow, trusting what is, and being open to serendipity and surprises. Judith Orloff
• Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life. The only place where you can experience the flow of life is the Now, so to surrender is to accept the present moment unconditionally and without reservation. Eckhart Tolle
• Contentment comes as the infallible result of great acceptances, great humilities–of not trying to make ourselves this or that, but of surrendering ourselves to the fullness of life–of letting life flow through us. David Grayson

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Ask what life wants from you and surrender yourself to that

• Instead of asking ‘what do I want from life?’ a more powerful question is, ‘what does life want from me? Eckhart Tolle

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Allow life to live you

• Let’s let go and let life live us, as Love. Ron Rattner
• Life is the dancer and you are the dance. Eckhart Tolle
• If God is the DJ, then Life is the dance floor; Love is the rhythm and You are the music. Pink
• Life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. Scott Cloud Lee
• Life calls the tune, we dance. John Galsworthy
• When you practice surrender, the energy that you emanate and which then runs your life is of a much higher vibrational frequency than the mind energy that still runs our world. Eckhart Tolle

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Allow life to be in charge

• I clearly remember deciding that from now on if life was unfolding in a certain way, and the only reason I was resisting it was because of a personal preference, I would let go of my preference and let life be in charge. Michael A. Singer
• If the natural unfolding of the process of life can create and take care of the entire universe, is it really reasonable for us to assume that nothing good will happen unless we force it to? Michael A. Singer
• It seems as though life knew exactly what it was doing, and as usual, my mind knew nothing. Michael A. Singer
• Life was asking me to get out of the way and let her do her thing. Michael A. Singer

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Life is not accountable to us but we are accountable to it

• Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect. Margaret Mitchell
• Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life. Denis Waitley

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If God is life, then life is the ultimate mystery

• A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life. There is an awfulness and a majesty around us, in all our little worldliness. Albert Pike
• Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough. Ingrid Bengis
• Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don’t miss it. Leo Buscaglia
• Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that are yet one. Carl Jung
• Life is mystery, know it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Mother Teresa
• Life is replete with comedy, drama, horror, suspense, tragedy, romance, mystery, fantasy and a good dose of fiction. While at times the plot may seem to be lacking, the special effects alone are well worth the price of admission. Derek R. Audette
• Look at this life – all mystery and magic. Harry Houdini
• My life was a mystery even as I lived it. Melissa Gilbert
• Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• The essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We’re involved in a mystery. Edward Hirsch
• The mystery of life–its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and in reverence or rage or irony, as the moment or situation might dictate, I have pondered and even demanded of cosmic energy to know Why. Theodore Dreiser
• Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing. Henry Miller
• We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and a mystery. H. G. Wells
• We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life. Jules Renard
• What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt held in cohesion by unresting cells. Which work they know not why, which never halt, myself unwitting where their Master dwells? John Edward Masefield
• In that way God as energy for life is mystery, incomprehensible to our limited abilities of perception and cognition. God is as close as breath yet beyond the universe. God is the power of life but not contained by any and all life. Flora A. Keshgegian
• Within the mystery of life there is the infinite darkness of the night sky lit by distant orbs of fire, the cobbled skin of an orange that releases its fragrance to our touch, the unfathomable depths of the eyes of our lover. No creation story, no religious system can fully describe or explain this richness and depth. Mystery is so every-present that no one can know for certain what will happen one hour from now. It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life. Jack Kornfield
• At the heart of the mystery of God is life. Why is there life at all? Is not the presence of the universe a mystery beyond all imagining? Even with the increasing ability of scientists to explain the origins of the universe and to imagine and even predict its future, the presence and abundance, rich variety and amazing complexity of life in all its forms is a wonder to behold. In truth, we can behold but a small fraction of it. We can sense but a tremor of the immense power of life. Flora A. Keshgegian
• Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. Soren Kierkegaard
• Life is a mystery – mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.  Amit Ray
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…a divine mystery…

• Life is a mystery – mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery. Amit Ray
• My life is … a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand, as though I were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing, but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me. Thomas Merton
• I believe in the profound and unfathomable mystery of life which has a sort of divine quality about it. Aldous Huxley
• Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality – about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all. Chinmayananda Saraswati

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…a mystery greater than death…

• Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront. James Frey
• Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one! Mehmet Murat Ildan

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…a mystery that cannot be grasped, understood or explained away…

• Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp. Brit Marling
• Life exists to be a mystery. Kedar Joshi
• The mystery of existence can never be explained away. Life is always more than we think. Tim Freke
• Life is a… mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness. Florida Scott-Maxwell
• Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our understanding. Paulo Coelho

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…especially in words or an ideology

• When all the words have been written, and all the phrases have been spoken, the great mystery of life will still remain. Kent Nerburn
• Human beings have created a mountain of words to explain the nature of reality, but under all the words the mystery of life remains as magnificent as ever. Tim Freke
• As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind. Anthony de Mello

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Life is an unfathomable riddle…

• Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities. Harry Emerson Fosdick
• Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries. Dean Koontz
• Life was an impenetrable mystery cloaked in babble. Paula Fox
• What is life? It’s an enduring enigma. We still really don’t know how biological life arose or even exactly what it is beyond a description of how it behaves. Science may answer these questions one day, but I’m not sure that will detract from life’s mysteriousness. Like love and light, life seems to have almost a spiritual essence, something apart from merely physical existence. Harvey Edser

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…that cannot be solved…

• Life is a mystery; don’t waste your time trying to figure it out. Dan Millman
• Life is a mystery; that means it cannot be solved. And when all efforts to solve it prove futile, the mystery dawns upon you. Then the doors are open; then you are invited. As a knower, nobody enters the divine; as a child, ignorant, not knowing at all- the mystery embraces you. With a knowing mind you are clever, not innocent. Innocence is the door. Rajneesh
• Life itself is an unsolved mystery”, said the clergyman gravely. Agatha Christie
• Mystery is part of each life, and maybe it is healthier to uphold it than to spend a lifetime in search of half-made answers. Linda Hogan

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…though we can have fun trying through science and art…

• I am satisfied with the mystery of life’s eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvellous structure of existence – as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature. Albert Einstein
• The goal of the artist is not to resolve life’s mysteries, but to deepen them. Jerry Uelsmann
• The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Albert Einstein
• Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there’s a certain point beyond which you say, “There are no answers.” Ray Bradbury

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…while religion often tries to explain it away

• Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone. Marion Woodman
• A religion without mystery must be a religion without God. Jeremy Taylor
• There is no mystery in religion. Swami Vivekananda
• A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Edmund Burke
• It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion. Albert Einstein
• Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery. Ram Dass
• Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers. John Shelby Spong
• God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. Richard P. Feynman
• Theosophy, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science. Ambrose Bierce

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• I am a Divine, magnificent expression of life, and deserve the very best. I accept miracles. I accept healing. I accept wholeness. And, I accept myself. I am precious, and I cherish who I am. Louise Hay

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