Ivan M. Granger Quotes & Sayings

Through you
the world learns
to recognize itself
- as heaven. — Ivan M. Granger

What the heart recognizes
as liberation,
the ego sees
as theft. — Ivan M. Granger

Even your suffering
is not your suffering.
It all belongs to the one
who lives through you. — Ivan M. Granger

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

You live in the most sacred place
in the universe:
right here,
right now. — Ivan M. Granger

Suffering is always an invitation
to awareness
and compassion
and action. — Ivan M. Granger

Love has no opposite.

Hate, fear, are not love's opposites;
they are its denial. — Ivan M. Granger

Don't resent the work.
It gives you the strength to stand
whole and silent
before the Mystery. — Ivan M. Granger

Outwardly, determined effort is necessary.

But within, nothing is needed
except to yield. — Ivan M. Granger

In this divine game of hide-and-seek
stop pretending
there is any place to hide. — Ivan M. Granger

Each kind act
and simple insight
is a victory. — Ivan M. Granger

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

Gratitude opens us to reality. — Ivan M. Granger

The real you
is much too big to be your own. — Ivan M. Granger

When in doubt, favor compassion
over certainty or tradition. — Ivan M. Granger

Poetry has an immediate effect on the mind. The simple act of reading poetry alters thought patterns and the shuttle of the breath. Poetry induces trance. Its words are chant. Its rhythms drumbeats. Its images become the icons of the inner eye. Poetry is more than a description of the sacred experience; it carries the experience itself. — Ivan M. Granger

Let that charged space
spark inside you and flash. — Ivan M. Granger

To really meet the mystery,
we must be uncertain. — Ivan M. Granger

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

Follow the trace of time
until the start
collapses with the end
in the space of the heart. — Ivan M. Granger

Stop struggling for perfection,
and recognize the perfection
you already are. — Ivan M. Granger

Some days it's best
to do nothing
but ring like a tapped bell. — Ivan M. Granger

To find its perfection
the soul must reveal
its imperfections. — Ivan M. Granger

Religion that does not inspire
outward compassion and inward awakening
is not religion. — Ivan M. Granger

Each day, each moment
is a step into the unknown.
How can we feel anything
but amazement? — Ivan M. Granger

There is an inner perfection
the same for everyone.
The psyche may go through the motions,
but it's journey is done. — Ivan M. Granger

Regardless of belief or faith,
everyone is agnostic
until gnosis. — Ivan M. Granger

The parched know --

real thirst
draws rainwater
from an empty sky. — Ivan M. Granger

Once you have gathered enough silence,
silence gathers you. — Ivan M. Granger