Lewis Mumford Quotes

Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.

Both heaven and hell are within us.

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.

I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.

What is sought can never produce the seeking.

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

There are always two sides to a person. CL is me, and so is Chaelin.

Creativity is secondary, meditation is basic and fundamental; everything should come out of your meditation. Then it will give you a beatitude, your being a new song, and it will help others to experience something of it. It will depend on their meditativeness.

Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God.

One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.

Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.

I, methought, while the sweet breath of heaven Was blowing on my body, felt within A correspondent breeze, that gently moved With quickening virtue, but is now become A tempest, a redundant energy, Vexing its own creation.

I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.

The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.

Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.

You don't go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul.

I am my own heaven and hell!

To accept duality is to earn identity.

Few find inner peace but this is not because they try and fail, it is because they do not try. . . When your life is governed by the divine nature instead of the self-centered nature you have found inner peace.

Lose your mind and come to your senses.

There's a part of you that you can get a hold of, and there's a part of you that you can never get a hold of, and those are opposite things. Who are you? Which one are you? You are combinations of opposites.