Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

It is possibly not very helpful to our inner life to ponder a great deal on how the external world is reflected in our soul. By doing so, we do not get beyond a shadowy picture of the world of mental images in ourselves.

I really enjoy when I'm asked questions that leap from the physical world and the material world into our hearts.

We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune... Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the soul furnishes the entertainment.

Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul.

For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It shows an inner state of mind, literally inner landscapes, and it is the human soul that is visible through the landscapes presented in my films.

A certain blue enters your soul

I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

An interior is the natural projection of the soul.

Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain.

If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!

Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walk only on feelings. That faces upward and in its mirror receives heavenly roads, which travel along themselves. That has learned to walk upon water when it scoops, that walks upon wells, transfiguring every path. That steps into other hands, changes those that are like it into a landscape: wanders and arrives within them, fills them with arrival.

A heart-memory is better than a mere head-memory. Better to carry away a little of the love of Christ in our souls, than if we were able to repeat every word of every sermon we ever heard.

For me writing isn't a mental exercise, it's barely even a literary exercise, it feels like a spiritual experience.

It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker.

Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.

Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.

The purse is the mirror of the soul.

Throughout your life, your inner landscape presents its contents to you again and again. When you are aware of all its elements, you are in continual communication with your soul.

Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

A song can be more than words and music ... when sung with soul a song carries you to another world, to a place where no matter how much pain you feel, you are never alone.

The gift of an image is that it provides a place to watch your soul.

Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment.

You always project on the outside how you feel on the inside.

All this knowledge of the objective world is of no value in comparison to having a little glimpse of the inner sky and its beauty - its sunrises and sunsets, its days and nights, its blue sky and its stars. The outer then looks only a pale reflection of the inner. The inner becomes more real and the outer becomes just a shadow.