Top 40 Francis Lucille Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Life is a celebration. Consider everything that makes you happy as a gift from God and say, ‘Thank you.”

— Francis Lucille

2. “When you are a truth lover, you don’t need to focus or concentrate on the truth or on God; you let God do that for you. It is Her love that is focusing you whenever there is a thought about truth. It is not you-as-a-person having it, it is God thinking of Herself.”

— Francis Lucille

3. “Keep everything open and live from openness to openness.”

— Francis Lucille

4. “If we think there is a problem with the world, we have a problem!”

— Francis Lucille

5. “We are one huge universe speaking and listening to itself.”

— Francis Lucille

6. “God sees God everywhere.”

— Francis Lucille

7. “Just stick to the ordinary circumstances without labeling them ordinary. Be open to them with no desire to change them in any way. They are, in fact, already magical and miraculous. They are the revelation of the Absolute. The mountains, for instance, are already miracles. We don’t need a little angel on top of the mountain to make it more miraculous, so don’t make one up.”

— Francis Lucille

8. “To begin with, it seems like an effort to keep returning to the welcoming presence, but at some point it is so natural that it seems to require an effort to leave it. It feels like home. We no longer feel that we need to be entertained.”

— Francis Lucille

9. “Let ghosts sleep, don’t wake them up. Celebrate and just get used to celebrating more and more.”

— Francis Lucille

10. “When we are in not knowing, we are at the threshold of the Absolute. From there, we receive everything we need at any given moment. If we need knowledge or intelligence, we receive it. The same is true if we need love or beauty. If we need nothing, we receive nothing. We are connected with the root of everything, so we are in total harmony.”

— Francis Lucille

11. “If you are not happy reading books, don’t read them. If you are not happy doing anything, don’t do it. Nobody forces you. This “follow your bliss” attitude will lead you towards bliss. Read the book as long as it makes you happy. When the book no longer makes you happy, put it aside. Don’t keep reading out of habit. Happiness is the highest good. It is sacred.”

— Francis Lucille

12. “When we want something, we often maintain its opposite. We reject, we resist what is. For instance, if we want something new to happen, it is often because we don’t want what is currently happening, so the desire and the resistance are part of the same movement. Wherever there is this sort of volition, there is also resistance.”

— Francis Lucille

13. “Only the ego wants to get rid of the ego.”

— Francis Lucille

14. “Remember when, as a very young baby, you had just been changed and fed and were not tired enough to sleep. What does a baby do in such a situation? It is simply present without any intention. That’s meditation.”

— Francis Lucille

15. “When we love our hate, we stop hating. Love always wins. To love hatred means to welcome it. It doesn’t mean that we should do what it tells us to do, but we shouldn’t suppress it either. When we love hatred we put ourselves out of the process of hatred, and love begins.”

— Francis Lucille

16. “Sometimes as a result of our residual desire to go somewhere, to achieve, there is a tendency to artificially create this mass of sensations in order to remain busy getting rid of it. However, the more we want to get rid of them, the more we create them. It is a “loop” of residual activity. Don’t try to get rid of something that you have created, just stop creating it and understand that it is your very desire to get rid of it that perpetuates it.”

— Francis Lucille

17. “The ego can never get rid of the ego.”

— Francis Lucille

18. “Simply remain in waiting without waiting. You are the love in everything you love. You are the beauty in everything you behold. You are the intelligence in everything you understand. You are the sweetness in all things.”

— Francis Lucille

19. “It could be said that understanding is the intellectual aspect of consciousness, love is the feeling aspect of consciousness, and beauty is the perceptual aspect of consciousness.”

— Francis Lucille

20. “Don’t expect anything, and you’ll get everything.”

— Francis Lucille

21. “We should be present to the totality of whatever arises in consciousness, instead of focusing on something that we want to get rid of. Then, we will become aware of the feeling of unhappiness, and the dislike of the feeling, and perhaps a bird singing in the distance and all kinds of things. Let all that evolve by itself. Don’t try to put your hands on it. If you focus on one single thing, you are still trying to manipulate it.”

— Francis Lucille

22. “Who am I to judge? The problem is that people kill each other because they judge each other. If I start judging them, I become like them.”

— Francis Lucille

23. “At the level of bodily sensation, we may find ourselves stuck with a big feeling or a big sensation. Usually this is because, implicitly or explicitly, we want to get rid of it and we are therefore consciously or unconsciously focusing on it.”

— Francis Lucille

24. “Our most precious treasure is freedom, and that means the freedom to be miserable if we so choose. We are free to identify with the body-mind organism if we want to. We are free to carry the baggage of the past with us or to drop it. It is very easy, but we choose not to. That’s our freedom.”

— Francis Lucille

25. “A world without death would have no beauty, no yellow leaves in the autumn. It would be boring. There would be no change because change implies death. A world without death would be a frozen world. The fact is that we want to make the world better than God does.”

— Francis Lucille

26. “It is important to understand that sense perceptions, bodily sensations, practical thoughts, creative thoughts, and thoughts about the truth are impersonal. They are not a problem.”

— Francis Lucille

27. “When you have a decision to make, it is good to try to make it from that place of stillness. Come to stillness and wait for an answer that feels good.”

— Francis Lucille

28. “Understand that a moment of happiness comes from grace, and this moment of happiness is teaching us that happiness is not in an object.”

— Francis Lucille

29. “Expectation is a subtle rejection of the now.”

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30. “The only thing that we need to remember is, “I don’t know.” Nobody knows. I am here sitting in a chair like someone who knows, but I don’t know. It just happens, I don’t know how. Every time it happens, I am amazed.”

— Francis Lucille

31. “We have always been this consciousness, this presence. What we are not, appears in it and disappears in it.”

— Francis Lucille

32. “Know that your happiness is not in the next situation, in the next object, but that the next situation or object is simply a celebration of this happiness that we already are. Stick to happiness throughout all situations. Don’t stick to the situations.”

— Francis Lucille

33. “When a landscape is painted by a great master, we always discover new details. It is ever new. This is even more true of the painting called “Now.” If it seems to be the same old painting, it would mean we are not really contemplating the painting; we are contemplating the stuff about the painting, the trivia, the concepts and feelings about the painting, but not the painting itself. The painting itself is always alive, fresh, and new.”

— Francis Lucille

34. “There is no freedom at the level of the body-mind. There is absolute freedom at the level of consciousness. That which is perceived is not free. That which perceives is freedom itself.”

— Francis Lucille

35. “If you had been born in a civilization in which the rising sun was called ‘my sun,’ you would consider it your sun.”

— Francis Lucille

36. “If there is psychological thinking, ask the question, “Who is this thinking about? Who is the one who is allegedly going to profit from this thinking? Who is the beneficiary?” That immediately switches the involved thinking into higher reasoning, into which it dissolves. Higher reasoning destroys the foundation of false, ignorant thinking.”

— Francis Lucille

37. “All we can do is work on ourselves. We can start with our own sense of being separate, with our own judgment, with our own feeling that things should be different, with our own refusal of the present situation, with our own refusal of others. As a person, we are not going to save the world and perhaps the world doesn’t need to be saved. All we can do as a person is to do our best.”

— Francis Lucille

38. “You wouldn’t be looking for me if you didn’t already know me.”

— Francis Lucille

39. “We cannot see how divine the hills and the mountains are, so we want an angel with wings on top of them.”

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40. “When we are happy, we don’t know that we are happy, because happiness requires childlike innocence. When a child is happy, he doesn’t know that he is happy. He doesn’t formulate it, he simply enjoys it.”

— Francis Lucille