Arthur Helps Quotes

I want people to see what's inside my head rather than just looking at me.

True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.

The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me.

It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.

All this knowledge of the objective world is of no value in comparison to having a little glimpse of the inner sky and its beauty - its sunrises and sunsets, its days and nights, its blue sky and its stars. The outer then looks only a pale reflection of the inner. The inner becomes more real and the outer becomes just a shadow.

Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf are the shadows of our souls.

You have to have something that is forever, something that is invisible.

Heaven and hell are not geographical, they are psychological, they are your psychology.

There is no entering into the secret thoughts of a man's heart.

I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!

He wished she knew his impressions; but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibilities of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent.

The outer kingdom is not our real home. The inner kingdom is our everything.

Animals teach us about the animals in ourselves. We need their spirits.

I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don't mean that everyone can write poetry - it's an art, a craft, it requires enormous commitment like any art. But there's a core of desire in each of us and poetry goes to and comes from that core. It's the social, economic, institutional gap that makes it difficult.

Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.

The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.

I seek to speak to you, in some way, as your own self. Who can tell what this may meanI myself do not know, but if you listen, things will be said that are perhaps not written in this book. And this will be due not to me but to the One who lives and speaks in both.

The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.

The interior life is often stupid.

There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.

Film is about what you are thinking. It's about what's inside.

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.

Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that?

An interior is the natural projection of the soul.