Wallace Stevens Quotes

It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

If you sense there must be more, there is more.

I found my faith to be more about my belief, my spirituality, about nature.

I think that I've always been on a search. I have my own kind of belief in love is the being, but I think that I've always been searching for truth and I think there's lots of truths and I think we should respect that in each other, and that's really what I wanted to bring across.

We wanted to more richly experience why we were alive, not just make a better life, and so people went in search of things. The great thing that came from those that time was to realize that there was definitely more to life than the materialism of the late sixties and early sixties. We were going in search of something deeper.

There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.

The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.

Man is by nature a lover. Only he has yet to discover the real thing to love. This quest awakens him to the fulfillment of his real Self.

Spirituality means seeking experience. Not just belief.

As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself.

The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking.... the most audacious adventure that one can dare.

I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief.

How far have I to go to find you in whom I have already arrived.

Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.

Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we need.

Many people know what they want to have, but have no idea of who they want to be. Getting 'things' simply will not fulfill you. Only living and doing what you believe is 'the right thing' will give you that sense of inner strength that we all deserve.

Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away from wherever you are, to look for your soul?

If you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are, then you never grow.

Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.

What you were is forever who you are.

One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. It is just like the sky: the birds fly, but they don't leave any footprints. You cannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind.

I take things very seriously, and I give myself time to come down and to ramp up, and it's an inside spiritual journey for me. I feel like acting is a way of feeling your personality, and it's really special. Special to have this kind of effect on people. You can only have that effect if you're really outside of yourself. You can't look at yourself and do what I do at the same time. I have done it that way in the past, but it doesn't really work. I can only soar within the parameters of time, and I use music analogies.

I'm fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are.