Top 60 Leonard Jacobson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Your gift to God is honesty. God’s gift to you is truth.”

— Leonard Jacobson

2. “If you can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it, touch it, or smell it, you can be present with it. It is of the present moment, and so it brings to you the opportunity to be present with it.”

— Leonard Jacobson

3. “The past is gone. The future never arrives. In truth, there is no life outside of this moment!”

— Leonard Jacobson

4. “The truth is known in silence. Be still and know.”

— Leonard Jacobson

5. “The underlying motivation that drives all addiction is our insistence on avoiding pain. However, the pain you are avoiding is based in the past, and has nothing to do with the present moment.”

— Leonard Jacobson

6. “One of the great dangers on the spiritual path is that the ego becomes spiritualized. The ego loves to think of itself as spiritually evolved. It is just another way that it manages to feel important and in control. It is very difficult to free yourself from an enlightened ego.”

— Leonard Jacobson

7. “If you accept full responsibility for yourself, you will be released forever from expectation, resentment, blame and guilt.”

— Leonard Jacobson

8. “True power arises in knowing what you want, knowing what you don’t want, expressing it clearly and lovingly without attachment to the outcome.”

— Leonard Jacobson

9. “The very essence of your Being is infinite, eternal silence. It is your true nature. It is the essence of all existence.”

— Leonard Jacobson

10. “The truth is uncompromising.”

— Leonard Jacobson

11. “Everything that occurs in your life is part of God’s plan to wake you up.”

— Leonard Jacobson

12. “When you are caught in the mind, your past defines you. When you are present, you are beyond definition.”

— Leonard Jacobson

13. “As you awaken, the present moment becomes your home. You still play in the world of time, but you’re not identified with the story unfolding there.”

— Leonard Jacobson

14. “We are on a journey of becoming that which we already are. That is the impossible paradox of our lives.”

— Leonard Jacobson

15. “There is no greater power than the power of love, which arises from Presence. It overcomes all resistance.”

— Leonard Jacobson

16. “If your commitment is to being present, then there will come a time when being present becomes your natural state. The present moment becomes your home. You will have short excursions into the world of the mind, but you never go so far into the mind that you get lost there.”

— Leonard Jacobson

17. “It’s not them, it’s you. It’s not there, it’s here. It’s not then, it’s now.”

— Leonard Jacobson

18. “When you are fully present, you transcend duality and open into Oneness. In Presence, there is power without opposition. There is love without hate, acceptance without judgment and allowing without control.”

— Leonard Jacobson

19. “True awakening involves embracing every aspect of yourself with love and acceptance, including everything you have been denying, hiding or trying to fix. To deny these things is a judgment of them and judgment will keep you forever imprisoned within separation.”

— Leonard Jacobson

20. “The only thing I trust is silence. And I trust silence completely.”

— Leonard Jacobson

21. “To live a present and awakened life, simply be responsive to the moment. It is very simple. If you are hungry, eat. If you are thirsty, drink. If you are lonely, call a friend for tea. If you are overwhelmed with too much company, then get away by yourself.”

— Leonard Jacobson

22. “Me, me, me! Mine, mine, mine! I’m right, I’m right, I’m right. What’s in it for me? How do I use this? How do I take advantage of it? This is the way of the ego. Own this within yourself and you will begin to release yourself from it.”

— Leonard Jacobson

23. “It is far wiser to ask for a question than an answer. When you think you have all the answers, it simply means you have run out of questions.”

— Leonard Jacobson

24. “Do not seek the answers. Let the answers find you.”

— Leonard Jacobson

25. “In the awakened state of Presence, aloneness becomes all-oneness.”

— Leonard Jacobson

26. “In presence, there is no right or wrong, because there is no duality. There is no judgment.”

— Leonard Jacobson

27. “Awakening is not something you achieve. It is something you relax into.”

— Leonard Jacobson

28. “If you really know how to ask the question ‘Who am I?’ you will inevitably be delivered into that state of silence and pure consciousness that is your true Being. The question ‘Who am I?’ will ultimately deliver you into the ‘I am’ of you.”

— Leonard Jacobson

29. “When you awaken, you will see that this is Heaven on Earth, and everything in physical form is the body of God.”

— Leonard Jacobson

30. “What are you going to do? Are you going to keep looking backwards, full of anger, resentment and unfulfilled desire. Or are you going to be here now. Because everything is available for you in the here and now. Love, compassion, silence, bliss and Oneness.”

— Leonard Jacobson

31. “Don’t diminish yourself in any way. Dare to be all that you are.”

— Leonard Jacobson

32. “Awakening is about liberating yourself from the prison that is the world of the mind and daring to be here as all that you are.”

— Leonard Jacobson

33. “Surrender the dream and the truth will be revealed.”

— Leonard Jacobson

34. “You get lost because you think there is somewhere to go. If you give up believing in a goal or a destination, then you cannot get lost. In the present moment, there is no destination.”

— Leonard Jacobson

35. “People have no clue that they’re in prison, they don’t know that there is an ego, they don’t know the distinction.”

— Leonard Jacobson

36. “Everything that occurs in your life is an opportunity for awakening. There are no exceptions!”

— Leonard Jacobson

37. “Gratitude, generosity and humility are inherent characteristics of one who is present. When you awaken, you will realize that everyone and everything has the same right to be here as you do. This includes every human Being, every tree Being, every flower Being, and every other kind of Being.”

— Leonard Jacobson

38. “In the present moment, you are beyond all definition. This means that you are no longer defined by the pain and limitations of the past. You are no longer defined by your judgments, opinions or beliefs nor are you defined by the judgment, opinions or beliefs of others.”

— Leonard Jacobson

39. “When you are truly present, you illuminate everything around you.”

— Leonard Jacobson

40. “It is not until you awaken and become fully present that you will realize that you have not been present. It is not until you awaken that you will realize you have been asleep, dreaming that you are awake.”

— Leonard Jacobson

41. “Only when you can accept that you are alone, will you discover that you are not alone.”

— Leonard Jacobson

42. “When you are present, your mind is silent. Free of opinions, concepts and beliefs and free of projections from the past and anxiety about the future, it is a perfectly clear instrument of expression. And the expression comes from the center of your Being.”

— Leonard Jacobson

43. “Projecting into the future with hopes, dreams and desires can never fulfill you. Only the present moment can fulfill you.”

— Leonard Jacobson

44. “You can be sad for others but you don’t have to take on their pain.”

— Leonard Jacobson

45. “The only moment ever available to you is the present moment. Everything else is memory or imagination.”

— Leonard Jacobson

46. “Waking up is not serious. It is a gentle remembering and an honoring of the present moment as the truth of life.”

— Leonard Jacobson

47. “You can live in a house, but your real home is inside you.”

— Leonard Jacobson

48. “As each of us awakens, it impacts human consciousness at a collective level. It is like dropping a tiny pebble of light into a dark pool of unconsciousness. Ripples of light!”

— Leonard Jacobson

49. “When you are present, you are transcendent of the mind and ego and so you can witness your mind and ego. You can be conscious of your thoughts without being lost in them when they arise.”

— Leonard Jacobson

50. “The more awake you are, the less there is of you here. At the very deepest level of Presence, you have disappeared and only God is.”

— Leonard Jacobson