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What’s the Point of Pointers Island?

Spiritual development seldom is accomplished in one easy step. Instead, it is the accumulation of many smaller steps. Often, each step is the end result of a “pointer” that got you going in the right direction. A pointer can also be a “glimpse” of something you see, or intuit in a flash of insight.

The purpose of this website is to find, aggregate and publish “pointers” found in ancient (and current) literature and electronic media. This should provide pointers to those who desire to develop spiritually.

Not all pointers work for everyone. At any given point in time, you will be handed just the right pointer for you.

Feel free to browse or search this archive and see if you can find pointers that may be helpful.

Three Essential Steps

  1. Find Your Path.
  2. Do the Work.
  3. Explore Creation.

Steps that lead to …….

Discovering who you really are, and finding your way home. The end of the journey. Except, you may find that there was no journey. You did not need to go anywhere, or change anything. Maybe you just needed to discover who you already are, and you have always been at your true home.

A “journey” may end up just a metaphore to get you started.

A few examples of Pointers provided over past years.

You will find many more in the growing library of pages here.

Albert Einstein

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious – the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”

Issac Newton

“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”

Buddha

“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, man cannot live without a spiritual life.”

Thomas Moore

“The soul has an absolute and unforgiving need for regular excursions into enchantment.”

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.“

C.S. Lewis

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world," Jalal Ad-Din Rumi “Knock, And He’ll open the door; Vanish, And He’ll make you shine like the sun; Fall, And He’ll raise you to the heavens; Become nothing, And He’ll turn you into everything.”

Ram Dass

“The next message you need is always right where you are.”

Deepak Chopra

“Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

“At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.”

Swami Vivekananda

“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”

Hermann Hesse

“Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”

Eckhart Tolle

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.”