John Main famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.

  • If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look. Truth is all there is. It's like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.

  • To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.

  • There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.

  • Out of His fullness we receive, and grace for grace, - like wave upon wave.

  • Meditation simplifies us, simplifies us to the point where we can receive the fullness of truth and the fullness of love.

  • As we free ourselves from the suffering of 'something is wrong with me, 'we trust and express the fullness of who we are.'

  • Remember me when I am dead and simplify me when I'm dead.

  • Do not promote what you can't explain, simplify, and prove early.

  • The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make it singularly clear.