Will Oldham Quotes

I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

You spend all this time reading or thinking or praying or searching or exploring.Maybe there's an Omega Point of love.

We are not social workers. We are contemplatives in the heart of the world.

When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.

He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.

I am alone and my spiritual journey is my experience.' This is the real experience of freedom and independence. Then we begin to see that being alone is a very beautiful thing. Nobody is obstructing our vision. We have complete panoramic vision.

One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.

Meditation is a good starting point, or even a little bit of contemplative reflection, asking questions like: Who am I without my name or form? What is my purpose if there is one? What do I want out of my life? What am I grateful for? Just a little bit of reflection like that starts you on the journey.

Dig deep. Find your way to your soul.

I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow.

Come to the Root of the Root of your Self

Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.

The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself.

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.

Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.

Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest.

Writing is like praying, because you stop all other activities, descend into silence, and listen patiently to the depths of your soul, waiting for true words to come. When they do, you thank God because you know the words are a gift, and you write them down as honestly and cleanly as you can.

We read books to find out who we are.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.