Yehuda Amichai Quotes

Dig deep. Find your way to your soul.

People don't see this side of me. They don't know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

I believe in nurturing the inner world.

I want people to find their inner depth.

Following your feelings will lead you to their source. Only through emotions can you encounter the force field of your own soul.

He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.

He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.

In life you only have to travel 6 inches. That is the distance from your mind to your heart.

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.

Come to the Root of the Root of your Self

'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks of life.

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

From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.

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

My journey is not to be a star but to become as aware a person as possible.

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

Focus your mind on what your Highest Self chooses to be.

If you do not go within, you without

I think that we are starting to get much more conscious about, you know, the importance of the spiritual path, and we are fulfilling it by paying attention to ourselves.

Except witnessing, I don't teach anything else. So just witness your mind and the meditation will be happening. And once you have got in tune with your being, you know the way, you know the how. Then it does not matter where you are. Alone or in the crowd, in the silences of the forest or in the noises of a marketplace, it is all the same. You can simply close your eyes and disappear inwards.

Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.