A Burning Desire Quotes

“The spiritual experience isn’t one of filling ourselves up— with either religious or intellectual beliefs—but of emptying ourselves so that we can experience what is, directly, unfiltered.”
― Kevin Griffin, A Burning Desire: Dharma God and the Path of Recovery

“Prayer: I turn my will and my life over to the Higher Power of Karma. I vow to live in harmony with the moral laws of the universe and to use the power of Karma to support my spiritual and worldly growth.”
― Kevin Griffin, A Burning Desire: Dharma God and the Path of Recovery

“When I told one friend that I objected to the idea of “false gods,” that I thought it was about “My God is better than your God,” he told me that rather than taking the First Commandment literally—“Thou shalt have no other gods before me”—he found it to be a powerful image of his addiction. His false god was alcohol. He lived for that god, he “turned his will and his life over” to that god.”
― Kevin Griffin, A Burning Desire: Dharma God and the Path of Recovery

“The spiritual experience isn’t one of filling ourselves up— with either religious or intellectual beliefs—but of emptying ourselves so that we can experience what is, directly, unfiltered. This”
― Kevin Griffin, A Burning Desire: Dharma God and the Path of Recovery

“When we think that we are separate, we put ourselves in constant conflict, trying to get ours, always in fear of losing what we have, alienating others whom we use for our selfish purposes, lying and cheating to make sure that we aren’t left behind.”
― Kevin Griffin, A Burning Desire: Dharma God and the Path of Recovery