Guillermo del Toro Quotes

There is something more spiritual to us than what we are on this earth, but how you access it I'm not sure.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

The idea of spirituality is difficult to discuss.

I can't help but view the world mystically. It's how I see it. I'm not a strict materialist. I think there's much more to the world than what we see with our five senses.

Human spirit, things that aren't tangible, fascinate me, so I'm always researching mind, spirit, soul.

I think we're in the time when the metaphysical world is so interesting.

I'd say that 'Tree of Life' is not a Christian so much as a spiritual film.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

People are drawn to the spiritual. It has a universal appeal.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Art is spiritual.

Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.

I wasn't born into a religious home, but I was just not a materialist. I didn't believe the material world was all there was or, even, most of what there was. I always felt that I was part of a reality of which the majority was unseen.

I have friends who are scientists, strict materialists, who don't think science and religion are compatible, but I just think most of us - unless you're a strict atheist materialist, which there aren't many of - most of us believe in something outside the material world. And if you do believe that, I don't know how you're not obsessed with it.

I don't think my work is about the spiritual life, but it certainly touches on it.

I believe in spirituality, which is out there.

Religion is not knowledge. Religion is love. The word 'religion' comes from a root which means binding together - falling into love, becoming one.

Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the unknowable, transcending reason, transcendent being). But the church is no longer adequate as a means of affording experience of the transcendental, and of making religion real - and so art has been transformed from a means into the sole provider of religion: which means religion itself.

Everything I do, I do it for somebody I've never met before, something in the great beyond. That's my primary relationship, really, is with something divine. I feel a connection as real with that as I've ever had with anybody on this earth.

God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change. The secret conversation is thus entirely spiritual; it is a direct encounter between God and the soul, abstracted from all material constraints.

I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

The Truth is far more all-encompassing than the mind could ever comprehend. No thought can encapsulate the Truth. At best, it can point to it. For example, it can say: "All things are intrinsically one (The Pearl of Great Price)." That is a pointer, not an explanation. Understanding these words means feeling deep within you the truth to which they point.

The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.