Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

The moving toward one's inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but impels him on toward the more adequate image.

In some ways Holy Smoke is about people's journey to the heart.

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

The real essence of art turned out to be not something high up and far off - it was right inside my ordinary daily self - If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

Those to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut, have not yet visited the house of their souls whose windows are open from dawn to dawn.

If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God.

This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.

I don't like the idea of spirituality done the way it's done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by going to an Ashram, or finding a guru or joining a temple. I made work out of it.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.

There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable.

The mystery of the soul is like that of a closed door. When you open it, you see something which was not there before.

A really fun part of getting to be an actor is exploring those parts of yourself that you wouldn't otherwise explore.

I don't think music teaches about mundane, everyday life. It teaches us what it is to be a human being.

I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.

Sometimes you need to get away for a few weeks just to figure out who you are again.

The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get you to Kansas. The latter will get you to heaven. Take your pick.

In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.

There is a Soul within the Soul. Seek it out. There is a Treasure in your mountain. Seek it Out. A mystic in motion, if that's what you are, don't seek out there; seek inside.

The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.

Perhaps the longest journey is the journey within.