Bruno Schulz Quotes

Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.

To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.

No matter how many levels of consciousness one reaches, the problem always goes deeper.

All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.

The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.

The entire heavenly realm is within us, but to find it we have to relate to what's outside.

It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.

True worship is not just an emotional experience. It reaches to the very depths of our souls and touches every aspect of our being

The point is to strip down, get protestant, then even more naked. Walk over scorched bricks to find your own soul. Your heart a searching dog in the rubble.

Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with half wishes and half thoughts. Ask yourself and keep on asking until you find the answer, for one may have known something many times, acknowledged it; one may have willed something many times, attempted it - and yet, only the deep inner motion, only the heart's indescribable emotion, only that will convince you that what you have acknowledged belongs to you, that no power can take it from you - for only the truth that builds up is truth for you.

To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul.

"I seek the meaning of existence," said the stranger. "You are of course assuming," said the Master, "that existence has a meaning." "Doesn't it?" "When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is you will discover that your question has no meaning," said the Master.

Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . not simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying the unsayable and steadily asking, "What do I really feel about this?

Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.

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

You’re a wondering soul, looking for a peace that doesn’t exist. Lost you will be until you find the one inner truth. We can never hide from what we are. The only hope is to embrace it.’ (Old Seer)

The soul has come to the physical realm to have a direct experience of itself as an "individuation of divinity."

People in the world wish to make things rigid, things which are of the finest nature which words cannot explain. When a person describes the hereafter, it is just like wanting to weigh the soul or photograph the spirit. I personally think that you must be able to realize yourself what the hereafter is. You must not depend upon my words.

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding

I try to be after something that is deeply reverberating inside of our souls, some deep echo from - even from prehistory. What makes us humans? How do we communicate? Where are we going at this moment? Something for an audience where they can step outside of themselves, where they can be almost like in ecstasy of truth, some sort of deep illumination. And that's what I'm trying in documentaries and in feature films.

Each of us has a Soul. But no one has stopped to tell us what the Soul is in the world to do. Or if they have told us, they've given us incomplete information - for example, that our job is to get back to God. That is not our job. We couldn't get back to God if we wanted to, because we never left God.

Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can - then I am nothing. Let me feel guilty ... don't try to educate me ... don't protect me.

We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.

Find out who you are and try not to be afraid of it.