Jean Ingelow Quotes

The closest you'll get to God, ever, in your existence, is measured by how close you get to yourself. Because your connection with God is you. He created you. That is the ultimate connection you have with God is you.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Soul is just that inner spirit. I use that inner spirit for whatever it is I do.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.

The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.

Your life is a mirror. Life gives us not what we want. Life gives us who we are

I feel like the movie is reminding people of who they are, which is what I think all great art does.

What we seek is what we are.

A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him, you will see yourself. As you treat him, you will treat yourself. As you think of him, you will think of yourself. Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.

Great lovers realize that they are what they are in love with.

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.

I know the person I am, and I know the person I can be.

I don't know about an awful lot of stuff. I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications. The thing that I do know about is my feelings and what I think of the world and what I think of me.

The final goal of all human endeavor is the development of the human soul.

I think the person creates the artist. And I think when you get lost within your person, your artistry get lost, too. It's like in 'Birdman.' Because the artist inside you is attached to your soul. And when you're not attached to yourself anymore, the soul goes away. You can't let that happen.

I don't find myself intriguing.

There's got to be a voice deep within you that is untouched by definitions. And it is there that you become divinely who you are.

I'm not sure if the passage of time affects our core identities so much as reveals them to us.