Andrew Harvey Quotes

United Kingdom, Writer
1952

Andrew Harvey is a British author, religious scholar and teacher of mystic traditions, known primarily for his popular nonfiction books on spiritual or mystical themes, beginning with his 1983 A Journey in Ladakh. He is the author of over 30 books, including, The Hope, A Guide to Sacred Activism, The Direct Path, the critically acclaimed Way of Passion: A Celebration of Rumi, The Return of the Mother and Son of Man. He was the subject of the 1993 BBC documentary "The Making of a Modern Mystic" and is the founder of the Sacred Activism movement.

Also known as Religious Leader

When the passion of the mystic for God is married to the passion of the activist for justice, a new fire is born.

Andrew Harvey
- God
- Passion
- Activist
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.

Andrew Harvey
- Nature
- Human
- Greed

What breaks your heart, what you really love, is the thing that will sustain you. That's what you ought to be doing.

Andrew Harvey
- Heart
- Breaks
- Sustain
Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths.

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

Andrew Harvey
- Things
- Growth
- Avoid
It is up to the leader to create a healthy environment where people are not afraid to fail. Mistakes should be seen as an integral part of the organizational process. They are a normal part of striving for excellence.

Andrew Harvey
- Process
- Leader
- Mistakes
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.

Andrew Harvey
- Love
- Mother
- Action
If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.

Andrew Harvey
- World
- Listening
- Beauty

There are no solutions to life, but there is an experience of wholeness, of bliss, of being, of the deathlessness of the Divine Self, of Silence in all its multifacted, diamond splendor that heals all grief, all wounds, all questions.

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

Andrew Harvey
- Person
- Become
- Meet