Edvard Munch Quotes

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.

The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.

Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

I have always been fond of recognizing the spiritual side of someone's personality. It's a very lovely concept.

When it comes to spiritual truth, how can we know that we are on the right path? One way is by asking the right questions - the kind that help us ponder our progress and evaluate how things are working for us.

There is only one instrument which is adequate to investigate the things of the spirit, and that is the Spirit itself. Just as it is necessary to train a man for scientific research in the physical world, so also is a long and slow process required to fit oneself for investigation of the spiritual world.

There's something cool, even on a philosophical level, about understanding the bigger picture and exploring faith, if you will, in a very real way. The more you delve into it and give into it, you just have to have faith. The more you invest in faith, wherever it takes you, some of those jagged edges become less sharp.

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses.

My faith did not require beauty or belonging - the deeper I went into my practice, the less it required at all.

When I started law school in 2010, I would have called myself an atheist. When I graduated law school in 2013, I was exploring my faith again. A lot changed in those three years.

While someone who is working out of ordinary science can speak from memory, the scientist of the spirit has to repeat the steps that once led him to the experience or discovery of which he is speaking. The whole process must be generated over again as a fresh, original experience.

The momentum of my creative life and intellectual growth is still the momentum of breaking out of fundamentalism. Because of that, I'm very grateful for it. But I'm also grateful that at the center of it was something that I still believe to be true - those fundamentals of faith.

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

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.

We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the kingdom of God cometh not with outward observation; and for this reason, that it was only to be known in man.

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

I realised success as an actor alone wouldn't make me happy. I needed to explore my spiritual side in more depth.

My hope is that 'Beyond the Heavens' will encourage people to explore faith, open their mind and go beyond what they think they know. That is what my mother encouraged me to do. I hope to encourage others to do the same through this story.

A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival.