Jakob Bohme Quotes

When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.

The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.

Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.

I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out what I care about and what exactly to make of it.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

Life is about, every single day, getting up to manifest your truth.

We can find Nature outside us only if we have first learned to know her within us. What is akin to her within us must be our guide. This marks out our path of enquiry.

The truth is that you shouldn't match your insides to other people's outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher's or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself - Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

I think that the journey of self to truth is always kind of a gnarly one.

I just want to be the greatest man that I can be while I'm alive, and in that, you have to find the truth. Find the hard truth about yourself.

Acting is revealing the truth that is already within you and that reflects the character that you're doing.

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.

You are what you've been looking for. The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For the external world is an emanation of your own mind, your own thinking and your own imagination. You created this world.

What you are looking for is within you

Any honest inquiry into the reality of nature also yields insights about ourselves.

If you do not go within, you without