Quotes from Ilchi Lee

If you dance, you'll feel more joyful. Just thinking isn't going to make you feel better. Think about how joyful you'll feel as you dance. Don't repeat the foolishness of putting off dancing as you debate whether dance will really bring you joy. We feel joy as soon as we dance. Everything is like that.

Earth Citizens are people who care for the earth as they care for their own bodies.

Earth Citizens have minds and hearts that know the Earth is the foundation of everything they do.

Don't be confined by the self you have experienced, the self you know. Going beyond what you know and what you have experienced, challenge your brain with new questions and give it new tasks—then it will begin to manifest infinite creativity.

Action is something you do purposefully with attention. If you really want something, you will use as much energy for it, and you will use it through action.

Meditation is a powerful way to enhance your attention, develop your ability to think mindfully, and to use the unlimited creative potential of your mind.

How do we meditate? It is not thinking about the past or future. It starts with being present.

The universe likes change. All that appears solid and substantial is built on the shifting sands of ceaseless transformation on the quantum level. Ironically, that's the one steady factor about the universe - it is always changing, which means our efforts to change are supported by the very nature of Life.

Consciousness is not confined within an individual brain. Otherwise, how can it cause changes in the physical state of things outside the brain?

He had forgotten how to soar upon the wings of his soul...

If you look within your heart, I am here, and you are free.

I am your hope, your guide - your soul.

Becoming an Earth Citizen means that you are breaking out of a self-imposed idea of who you are and embracing the broader reality of who you truly are.

God who is in heaven Thank you for letting us know you. God who is in the mountains and streams Thank you for letting us see and feel you. God who is in the heart of all people I pray earnestly that your will becomes realized. What I'm most grateful for is that, even if I were not to have eyes, ears, and a body you have given me this soul so that I can know you, who are invisible, and for that I thank you with all my heart.

It's only natural for people to fall, but there are people who, even if they fall, jump right back up right away and run forward, and there are people who just keep sitting there, crying.

Recognizing Nothing as one's true nature, following the guidance of our conscience - having a clear distinction between absolute and relative values, and using the Earth as the external absolute scale that matches the internal absolute truthfulness.

The Soul bird sang: "My beloved Jay, Look into my eyes. Look deeply, and you will remember hope. You will remember the power of your mind, The great power, big as the sky, that makes all things possible. Look straight into my eyes. I can restore to you the hope you've lost. I can enable restore to you the hope you've lost. I can enable you to meet your infinite, eternal min. That is what I can do for you. I am your soul. I, who restore your lost hope, am your soul.

Life is a long journey meant for leaping beyond loneliness to find unchanging freedom and truth.

A more truthful perception may be seen from the perspective of the whole - what we really are, beyond names, roles, education, religion and other information added to our true nature.

Religion is not God himself or herself. It is a system of teaching about God, an explanation of God's way to human minds. But God doesn't need explanations to exist.

But now Jay's mind was so full of other things that he could no longer hear the bird's song.

No matter how difficult your life has been, you can be certain that your soul is still in perfect condition, waiting for you to set it free.

Jay couldn't fill that empty space with anything. Nothing brought him joy.

What is missing in our economic system is a central value that can encompass everything that can be transacted and used to assign the proper relative value to everything.