T. S. Eliot Quotes

For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.

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

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

The kinds of stories I want to be a part of telling are about delving into what it is to be a human being.

Rather than numbing or drowning out the difficult-to-describe but urgently sensed feelings that are part of being human, poetry invites us to tease them out, to draw them into language that is rooted in intricate thought and strange impulse.

I think people will discover themselves in 'Ankahee.'

Spirituality is not about looking up or down - it's about looking inward.

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.

For me, Miranda has always been a much deeper character than the three-minute videos I put online.

Everyone should go inward, get curious about themselves, and investigate their shadows. It's one of the most important gifts we can give humanity. It's one of our most vital causes.

When I look in the mirror, I see an ever-unfolding process.

Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.

Life is a constant challenge to know oneself.

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.

...fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was like. Could she sing? (Was it nice to hear when she did?) Was she pretty? Was she a good friend? Could she have been a loving mother? A faithful wife? Have I got a sister and does she favor me? If my mother knew me would she like me? (140)

For discovering one's true inner nature, I think one should try to take out some time, with quiet and relaxation, to think more inwardly and to investigate the inner world. That may help.

Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.

The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly, never finding what you want, unless you have found what you really want inside yourself. When you follow a star you know you will never reach that star; rather it will guide you to where you want to go. Its a reference point, not an end in itself, even though you seem to be following it. So it is with the world. It will only ever lead you back to yourself. The end of all your exploring will be to cease from exploration and know the place for the first time.

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.

Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.

I think the goal is always to go deeper within myself, and accept myself on deeper levels and to know myself on deeper levels. Whether or not I look for roles that are going to do that for me, I certainly look for the ways in which the roles I get can do that for me.