Ivan M. Granger > Quotes

“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

“The parched know --

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

“Love has no opposite.

Hate, fear, are not love’s opposites;
they are its denial.”
― Ivan M. Granger

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

“Through you
the world learns
to recognize itself
— as heaven.”
― Ivan M. Granger

“When you know where the Beloved lives,
you are content,
no need to argue with others over street names.”
― Ivan M. Granger

“Your most secret wound
is the doorway.”
― Ivan M. Granger

“We contain universes and infinities.”
― Ivan M. Granger

“The boundary between self and the world
is bridged by the breath.”
― Ivan M. Granger

“The mystic’s awareness
does not sift reality,
it bathes in it.”
― Ivan M. Granger

“Self-acceptance has a strange way
of becoming self-awareness.”
― Ivan M. Granger

“You don’t acquire enlightenment;
you recognize it.”
― Ivan M. Granger

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

“The happiest moment is when you discover
the world at rest
in your heart.”
― Ivan M. Granger

“Spiritual awakening
is the fundamental political act.
Awareness spreads outward
into the world.”
― Ivan M. Granger

“What can one do but stand
in silent awe of the vision that emerges,
showing us how much bigger we are
than even our best stories?”
― Ivan M. Granger

“Meditation, prayer, quiet —
These train your eyes to see
by the inner glow.”
― Ivan M. Granger

“Once you have gathered enough silence,
silence gathers you.”
― Ivan M. Granger

“We don’t get the greatest gifts,
we give ourselves to them instead.”
― Ivan M. Granger

“To really meet the mystery,
we must be uncertain.”
― Ivan M. Granger

“Outwardly, determined effort is necessary.

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

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

“Even our masks reveal us.”
― Ivan M. Granger

“When problems fill the day,
then those problems are the day’s worship.”
― 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

“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

“It is only when we deeply engage
with the gentle flow of small events
that we come to know our lives.”
― Ivan M. Granger

“Sacred texts:

A map doesn’t mean anything
if you don’t make the journey.”
― Ivan M. Granger

“The soul harmonizes, uncontracts,
when it remembers it is the child
of something profound, alive, divine… and beautiful.”
― Ivan M. Granger

“What the heart recognizes
as liberation,
the ego sees
as theft.”
― Ivan M. Granger