Quotes from Roger Housden

You who were bewildered by a meaning, whose code was broken, crucifix uncrossed—Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving. Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost.

Absence is a house so transparent that I, lifeless, will see you, living, and if you suffer, my love, I will die again.

If you allow yourself to fully feel the life you're in - not conceptually, but viscerally in the present moment - then that is inherently meaningful.

To keep faith with life is to experience that everything- everything that comes to us whatever it is- has its place in the puzzle of our existence.

I certainly spent many years in my early life chasing all over the globe for meaning and purpose. I'd feel like I'd found it, then it would fade away again.

When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself.

It's the bringing together of knowledge and wisdom that is a great part - perhaps the greatest part - of our life's journey.

I've come to see that the way my life shows up is actually my purpose.

The more we enter our own gifts, the more we feel that sense of proportion. In that sense, I think our life lies in the fulfillment of those potentialities, whatever they may be.

We live in an age of knowledge, with the great god Google, that we can refer to at any time on any subject.

The everyday, familiar sense of self who lives in time, and that dimension which we've called presence, that is always here, that is still and quiet.

A knowing of what needs to be done or what needs to be said or what needs to happen at any given time. That is wisdom and wisdom does not come from the accumulation of knowledge.

We have to be on time every day for one thing or another, so how can we be on time and yet not in time at the same time?

Time and the timeless dimension co-exist here, now in this very moment that we're living, this very moment that we're speaking.

The love of someone else is more accessible or more possible if one lives with a sense of loving embrace towards oneself because that extends out into the world.

I don't think one can run out and try and chase love.

When we are open to ourselves and our own experience, and therefore, open to the world, then the world can respond.