Bill Viola Quotes

It doesn't do any good to wire the world if we short circuit the soul.

When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.

We are material beings for but a moment in time, but we are spiritual beings forever.

We live in such a self-gratifying nation, and everything is instantaneous.

Once you accept and rejoice in your authenticity, you begin to see things as YOU are. You begin to see the authentic self is the Soul made visible. Godspeed on your journey to wholeness.

There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul.

Materialism has cast man into such depths that a mighty concentration of forces is necessary to raise him again. He is subject to illnesses of the nervous system which are veritable epidemics of the life of the soul.

When you understand that you are your soul, then you will experience Life as an expression of the soul.

There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.

By making a soul connection, your true purpose in life will become the foundation of everything you do.

The purpose of soul questions is to open yourself deeper and deeper until all that is left is the power and beauty you are bringing to the lives of others.

and she realized that she (her soul) was not at all involved, only her body, her body alone. The body that had betrayed her and that she had sent out into the world among other bodies.

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

In my experience, the more people have, the less likely they are to be contented. Indeed, there is abundant evidence that depression is a 'disease of affluence', a disorder of modern life in the industrialized world.

So, let us push on now, and remember ourselves back to the wild soul. Let us sing her flesh back onto our bones.

We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved.

Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.

People in the secular world have too much to live with, too little to live for.

I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.

Faith is in the soul. Belief is thought. Faith is so rich. Faith gives me my spiritual self.

The soul is covered by a thousand veils.

The purse is the mirror of the soul.

Your friends are really an extension of your vision of the world. It's kind of a physical manifestation of how you feel. Like your soul.

Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.

Each of us has a Soul. But no one has stopped to tell us what the Soul is in the world to do. Or if they have told us, they've given us incomplete information - for example, that our job is to get back to God. That is not our job. We couldn't get back to God if we wanted to, because we never left God.