Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

It does not appear to me to be open to question that there is in the soul of man a nature and an order obtaining in it as permanent and universal as in the material world.

We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit.

...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.

Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?

Human beings are not things needing to be motivated and controlled; they are four dimensional - body, mind, heart, and spirit.

Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.

You have to have something that is forever, something that is invisible.

Animals teach us about the animals in ourselves. We need their spirits.

I am the visible part of the invisible Christ. He is the invisible part of the visible me.

Religion--that voice of the deepest human experience.

What you were is forever who you are.

Man without mysticism is a monster.

It's nothing mystical, necessarily. It's nothing secretive. It's just what we do with our body we do with our soul.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a poetic anatomy. One, you can see; one, you cannot. One is made of bones and teeth and flesh; the other is made of energy and memory and faith. But they are both equally true.

We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.

I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.

Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

The soul is the birthless, deathless, changeless part of us - the part of us that looks out from behind our eyes and has no form.

Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.

When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.

I can let my true self shine in front of God.

Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.