Quotes from Andrew Harvey

What knowing the Mother means above all is daring to put love into action. The Mother herself is love-in-action, love acting everywhere and in everything to make creation possible.

Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.

The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes.

What we are here to do is to meet and become the person we are.

If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.

Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths

To be in a body is to hear the heartbeat of death at every moment.

If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.

If you're listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; it's purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold ever more wonders.

I pray for the gift of silence, Of emptiness and solitude, Where everything I touch is turned into prayer:

The universe is in fact the constantly reborn "child" of the lovemaking of the "Father" and "Mother," Shiva and Shakti, who at all moments dance in and out of, and merge with, each other's being with divine complexity, subtlety, passion, and ecstatic humor.

You will be graced by the necessary catastrophes.

Let my soul in its journey into you Never rest anywhere.

Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can't be shared.

At the core of Christ's enterprise is an experience of this fire and the revolutionary passion of charity that blazes from it. This passion, as Christ knew and lived it, cannot rest until it has burnt down all the divisions that separate one human heart from another and so from reality.

If you fuse knowledge of your transcendent origin with tireless service in and for God, you will come, on earth and in this body, to know divine joy and be fed by the ceaseless passion-energy of divine love. Human and divine, inner peace and outer action, knowledge and love, will be married in you at ever greater depths to make you an ever more powerful and radiant warrior for Love and Justice in all dimensions.

What a recovery of the wisdom of the Mother brings to all of us is the knowledge of inseparable connection with the entire creation and the wise, active love that is born from that knowledge.

If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.

Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can't be shared.