Inner Depths Quotes

Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But it is not a museum of archetypes or psychic constructs, as he seemed to assume. It is a frontier of wholeness into which any person, so motivated and so courageous as to wish to do it, can go and leave the mundane plane far behind.

The human soul is an abyss

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.

Whatever we say and mean by life is just a journey toward death. If you can understand that your whole life is just a journey and nothing else, then you are less interested in life and more interested in death. And once someone becomes more interested in death, he can go deep into the very depths of life; otherwise, he is just going to remain on the surface.

Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.

Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

Love is...like a spring coming up out of the ground of our own depths. "I am gift." All that I am is something that's given, and given freely. Being doesn't cost anything. There's no price tag, no strings attached.

She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.

I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.

Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with meaning.

You've got my heart in unfamiliar territory. It's never been out here on my sleeve. But here tonight with you it's quite a different story. You bring out a side of me no one has ever seen.

The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.

you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret

Fiction doesn't appeal to me because it can describe physical appearances exhaustively or because it can offer access to the inner depths of an array of human characters - neither that kind of "realism" of bodily surfaces nor of individual psychologies seems particularly realistic to me.

Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another.

There are depths to the human soul that should not be fathomed.

Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.

People remain unknowable to us, even people that we're very close to. And I think the same goes for our own selves.

I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it.

The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.