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Top 30 Stephen Cope Quotes (2025 Update)

Stephen Cope Quote: “If you bring forth what is within you it will save you. If you do not, it will destroy you.”

1. “If you bring forth what is within you it will save you. If you do not, it will destroy you.”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “The whole of Chapter Six in the Bhagavad Gita is devoted to Krishna’s teachings on this practice: “Whenever the mind wanders, restless and diffuse in its search for satisfaction without, lead it within; train it to rest in the Self,” instructs Krishna. “When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.”

2. “The whole of Chapter Six in the Bhagavad Gita is devoted to Krishna’s teachings on this practice: “Whenever the mind wanders, restless and diffuse in its search for satisfaction without, lead it within; train it to rest in the Self,” instructs Krishna. “When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “The impulse to eschew the unpleasant leads to avoidance; avoidance leads to aversion; aversion leads to fear; fear leads to hatred; hatred leads to aggression. Unwittingly, the oh-so-natural instinct to avoid the unpleasant becomes the root of hatred. It leads to war: war within, war without. Entertaining aversion is a slippery slope.”

3. “The impulse to eschew the unpleasant leads to avoidance; avoidance leads to aversion; aversion leads to fear; fear leads to hatred; hatred leads to aggression. Unwittingly, the oh-so-natural instinct to avoid the unpleasant becomes the root of hatred. It leads to war: war within, war without. Entertaining aversion is a slippery slope.”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “It is the night sea journey that allows us to free the energy trapped in these cast-off parts – trapped in what Marion would call “the shadow.” The goal of this journey is to reunite us with ourselves. Such a homecoming can be surprisingly painful, even brutal. In order to undertake it, we must first agree to exile nothing.”

4. “It is the night sea journey that allows us to free the energy trapped in these cast-off parts – trapped in what Marion would call “the shadow.” The goal of this journey is to reunite us with ourselves. Such a homecoming can be surprisingly painful, even brutal. In order to undertake it, we must first agree to exile nothing.”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “Am I living fully right now? Am I bringing forth everything I can bring forth? Am I digging down into that ineffable inner treasure-house that I know is in there? That trove of genius? Am I living my life’s calling? Am I willing to go to any lengths to offer my genius to the world?”

5. “Am I living fully right now? Am I bringing forth everything I can bring forth? Am I digging down into that ineffable inner treasure-house that I know is in there? That trove of genius? Am I living my life’s calling? Am I willing to go to any lengths to offer my genius to the world?”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “Dharma is born mysteriously out of the intersection between The Gift and The Times. Dharma is a response to the urgent – though often hidden – need of the moment. Each of us feels some aspect of the world’s suffering acutely. It tears at our hearts. Others don’t see it or don’t care. But we feel it. And we must pay attention. We must act. This little corner of the world is ours to transform. This little corner of the world is ours to save.”

6. “Dharma is born mysteriously out of the intersection between The Gift and The Times. Dharma is a response to the urgent – though often hidden – need of the moment. Each of us feels some aspect of the world’s suffering acutely. It tears at our hearts. Others don’t see it or don’t care. But we feel it. And we must pay attention. We must act. This little corner of the world is ours to transform. This little corner of the world is ours to save.”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are. Love the world as your self; Then you can care for all things.”

7. “See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are. Love the world as your self; Then you can care for all things.”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “Abandon all supports,” says Krishna to Arjuna in one of his great final teachings. “Cast off your dependency on everything external, Arjuna, and rely on the Self alone.” We work first because we have to work. Then because we want to work. Then because we love to work. Then the work simply does us. Difficult at the beginning. Inevitable at the end.”

8. “Abandon all supports,” says Krishna to Arjuna in one of his great final teachings. “Cast off your dependency on everything external, Arjuna, and rely on the Self alone.” We work first because we have to work. Then because we want to work. Then because we love to work. Then the work simply does us. Difficult at the beginning. Inevitable at the end.”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “And there is that wonderful, haunting voice of the true self that calls to us, that keeps us company as we stride deeper and deeper into the world, determined to save the only soul we really can save.”

9. “And there is that wonderful, haunting voice of the true self that calls to us, that keeps us company as we stride deeper and deeper into the world, determined to save the only soul we really can save.”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “We only know who we are by trying on various versions of ourselves.”

10. “We only know who we are by trying on various versions of ourselves.”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “If you are tired, keep going; if you are scared, keep going; if you are hungry, keep going; if you want to taste freedom, keep going.”

11. “If you are tired, keep going; if you are scared, keep going; if you are hungry, keep going; if you want to taste freedom, keep going.”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “As W. H. Auden noted, “human beings are by nature actors who cannot become something until they have first pretended to be it.”

12. “As W. H. Auden noted, “human beings are by nature actors who cannot become something until they have first pretended to be it.”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “And now a surprise: Beethoven was deeply inspired by his reading of the Bhagavad Gita.”

13. “And now a surprise: Beethoven was deeply inspired by his reading of the Bhagavad Gita.”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “Just let go of all the rest of the day, now. Let all of your worries roll off your shoulders; let’s just enjoy being home in the body for the next hour and a half.”

14. “Just let go of all the rest of the day, now. Let all of your worries roll off your shoulders; let’s just enjoy being home in the body for the next hour and a half.”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “The goal of human life,” says Ramakrishna, “is to meet God face to face.” But the magic is this: if we look deeply into the face of all created things, we will find God. Therefore, savor the world, the body. Open it, explore it, look into it. Worship it.”

15. “The goal of human life,” says Ramakrishna, “is to meet God face to face.” But the magic is this: if we look deeply into the face of all created things, we will find God. Therefore, savor the world, the body. Open it, explore it, look into it. Worship it.”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you. Now we can add a codicil: If you bring forth what is within you, it will save the world.”

16. “If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you. Now we can add a codicil: If you bring forth what is within you, it will save the world.”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “8. And finally, of course, the very central teaching of the Gita: “Let go of the outcome.” Let go of any clinging to how this all comes out. You cannot measure your actions at this point by the conventional wisdom about success and failure.”

17. “8. And finally, of course, the very central teaching of the Gita: “Let go of the outcome.” Let go of any clinging to how this all comes out. You cannot measure your actions at this point by the conventional wisdom about success and failure.”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “Our true self remains deeply hidden, incognito, submerged beneath a web of mistaken identities.”

18. “Our true self remains deeply hidden, incognito, submerged beneath a web of mistaken identities.”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “The fundamental experience of human suffering is the experience of alienation from the self, from the source – from God.”

19. “The fundamental experience of human suffering is the experience of alienation from the self, from the source – from God.”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “Gandhi insisted upon returning love for hatred and respect for contempt.”

20. “Gandhi insisted upon returning love for hatred and respect for contempt.”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “For me,” he says, “the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn’t know I knew.” In a new poem, he wrote, he “meets himself coming home.”

21. “For me,” he says, “the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn’t know I knew.” In a new poem, he wrote, he “meets himself coming home.”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “It is, therefore, a very great thing to be little, which is to say: to be ourselves. And when we are truly ourselves we lose most of the futile self-consciousness that keeps us constantly comparing ourselves with others in order to see how big we are.”

22. “It is, therefore, a very great thing to be little, which is to say: to be ourselves. And when we are truly ourselves we lose most of the futile self-consciousness that keeps us constantly comparing ourselves with others in order to see how big we are.”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “1. First of all, “ask for guidance.” As it turns out, this is remarkably important, and it’s something most of us almost always forget to do. It seems that there is something about actually asking that jump-starts a process. And sometimes asking repeatedly is required. Even begging.”

23. “1. First of all, “ask for guidance.” As it turns out, this is remarkably important, and it’s something most of us almost always forget to do. It seems that there is something about actually asking that jump-starts a process. And sometimes asking repeatedly is required. Even begging.”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “Frost’s early years were spent finding out who he was. But his later years were spent increasingly being who he was on purpose. As he himself said, the story of his life is the story of someone becoming more and more himself. He later wrote: They would not find me changed from him they knew – Only more sure of all I thought was true.”

24. “Frost’s early years were spent finding out who he was. But his later years were spent increasingly being who he was on purpose. As he himself said, the story of his life is the story of someone becoming more and more himself. He later wrote: They would not find me changed from him they knew – Only more sure of all I thought was true.”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “Initiations are opportunities for us to grow larger. They are death channels. And they are birth channels. They allow us the opportunity to integrate more of our self – more possibility, more reality, more sensation, more feeling. They require everything we’ve got. They destroy us to re-create us.”

25. “Initiations are opportunities for us to grow larger. They are death channels. And they are birth channels. They allow us the opportunity to integrate more of our self – more possibility, more reality, more sensation, more feeling. They require everything we’ve got. They destroy us to re-create us.”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “Susan never denied the existence of God. But her beliefs were secularized and lodged in the world around her. When she was once asked, “Do you pray?” she responded, “I pray every single second of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.”

26. “Susan never denied the existence of God. But her beliefs were secularized and lodged in the world around her. When she was once asked, “Do you pray?” she responded, “I pray every single second of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “What Frost makes clear in his poem is that the act of choosing is the most important thing. The act of moving forward is what matters. He might have chosen either teaching or poetry. But he had to choose one or the other. He looked long down each path. He understood the loss involved – the cutting off of possibilities. He saw clearly that options once discarded are usually gone forever. Way leads on to way. But Krishsna writes: Concerning one’s dharma, one should not vacillate!”

27. “What Frost makes clear in his poem is that the act of choosing is the most important thing. The act of moving forward is what matters. He might have chosen either teaching or poetry. But he had to choose one or the other. He looked long down each path. He understood the loss involved – the cutting off of possibilities. He saw clearly that options once discarded are usually gone forever. Way leads on to way. But Krishsna writes: Concerning one’s dharma, one should not vacillate!”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “If you bring forth what is within you it will save you. Yes. But this saving is not just for you. It is for the common good.”

28. “If you bring forth what is within you it will save you. Yes. But this saving is not just for you. It is for the common good.”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “Self begins to reveal its nature. In the depths of meditation, we begin to recognize again that we are One with Brahman – that we are that wave that is nonseparate from the sea. Memory is restored!”

29. “Self begins to reveal its nature. In the depths of meditation, we begin to recognize again that we are One with Brahman – that we are that wave that is nonseparate from the sea. Memory is restored!”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “Frost was intuitively aware of an important principle: In the cultivation of dharma, there is nothing more important than understanding what conditions are needed, and relentlessly creating them.”

30. “Frost was intuitively aware of an important principle: In the cultivation of dharma, there is nothing more important than understanding what conditions are needed, and relentlessly creating them.”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “We derive the greatest pleasure and fulfillment when all our faculties are drawn together into our life’s work. In this state of absorption, we experience extraordinary satisfaction. We human beings are attracted to the experience of intense involvement. The outcome of this involvement, says Hokusai, is sublime. “By ninety I will have penetrated to their essential nature.” Hokusai’s lesson, finally, is that a life of passion for dharma is a fulfilled.”

31. “We derive the greatest pleasure and fulfillment when all our faculties are drawn together into our life’s work. In this state of absorption, we experience extraordinary satisfaction. We human beings are attracted to the experience of intense involvement. The outcome of this involvement, says Hokusai, is sublime. “By ninety I will have penetrated to their essential nature.” Hokusai’s lesson, finally, is that a life of passion for dharma is a fulfilled.”

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Stephen Cope Quote: “In effect, then, Beethoven became a musical seer. Like the mystical rishis of ancient India, he perceived aspects of reality that were beyond the perceptual range of ordinary people. Very few of his contemporaries could understand the musical leaps he had made. And of course, not seeing the genius of his refined perception, his critics called him “mad.”

32. “In effect, then, Beethoven became a musical seer. Like the mystical rishis of ancient India, he perceived aspects of reality that were beyond the perceptual range of ordinary people. Very few of his contemporaries could understand the musical leaps he had made. And of course, not seeing the genius of his refined perception, his critics called him “mad.”

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