Caroline Paul Quotes

We all have a dinosaur deep within us just trying to get out.

When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer.

However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.

I may be too craving of that rich gift, the power of sharing other minds. I have drunk deeply, long, and oh! how blissfully at this fountain in a foreign clime. Hearts met hearts, minds joined with minds; and what were the secondary trials of pain to the enfeebled, suffering body when daily was administered the soul's medicine and food!

It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that's unstoppable. You can't get through it, you know.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Every man has a wild animal in him.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

Inside every man, there's a yearning to express your wild side.

One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.

Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.

I often feel I am being burned at the stake just because I have always refused to give up that wonderful strange power I have inside me that becomes manifested when I am in harmonious communication with some other inspired being.

Look well to the fire of your souls, for the tendency of fire is to go out.

Man is symbolic to the sun. The sun is dealing with a ball of fire and didn't go out yet. Me being symbolic to the sun, that's what keeps me going, that's like my hunger. That's like my fury, my self esteem. That's the elements within me that keep my body motionable. The fire is self esteem. Inner strength.

Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.

Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.

Anger is the spirits telling you that you are alive.

The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.