Doorway to the Sacred Quotes

“Once we stop asking ourselves to be happy or perfect or anything else other than what is simply true for us in the moment, we can more easily stop asking the same of others as well.”
― Stephanie Rutt, Doorway to the Sacred: Transform Your Life with Mantra Prayer

“It is the very parts we perceive to be not-so-good that need our love the most. As it is only in love that what is hurting or what has been marginalized can be embraced, felt and transformed.”
― Stephanie Rutt, Doorway to the Sacred: Transform Your Life with Mantra Prayer

“Radical self-acceptance enables us to sit at the feet of our life to be taught. Being taught transforms our fears and struggles into a kind of compost from which we may grow a more joyful life. And, along the way, we become a little more free of self-imposed obstacles and become a little more our Self. And, we are glad.”
― Stephanie Rutt, Doorway to the Sacred: Transform Your Life with Mantra Prayer

“We blossom not in spite of but because of. I think of every experience as my teacher, most especially the difficult ones. I believe this is the role of suffering. Suffering cracks us open to allow for new light. Yet, we can choose to accept the light or hide under our bushel.”
― Stephanie Rutt, Doorway to the Sacred: Transform Your Life with Mantra Prayer

“It is our job to follow the impulse, or vision, placed in our hearts at birth and then to release that impulse into the unseen hand of the Beloved for manifestation.”
― Stephanie Rutt, Doorway to the Sacred: Transform Your Life with Mantra Prayer