The Lord is in the details of our lives.
What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.
Nothing happens in life by accident. Nothing occurs by chance. Nothing takes place without producing the opportunity for real and lasting benefit to you. The perfection of every moment may not be apparent to you, yet that will make the moment no less perfect.
You must have an opinion about yourself, some kind of meaning to yourself, a purpose, if you are really going to learn anything or develop into that which you desire to be.
There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Raising your level of performance requires a proper mentality and meaning from within. This gives you the ability and drive to work on the things necessary to go to a higher level. When people ask me how to raise their level of performance, the first thing I ask is, How important is it to you?
There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.
Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.
Words are but the bannerets of a great army, a few bits of waving color here and there; thoughts are the main body of the footman that march unseen below.
The play is not in the words, it's in you!
I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing.
Art is freedom. If we don't have that element, we don't feel human anymore. Art is not decoration or a function. Before all that, art is art. This connection to meaning - our inner, intuitive knowledge - is something.
The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.
The spiritual world is hidden and perfectly revealed in the physical world.
When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one.
Find the meaning behind whatever it is you're going through because everybody's got something.
The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.
How do we see physically? No differently that we do in our consciousness - by means of the productive power of imagination. Consciousness is the eye and ear, the sense for inner and outer meaning.
Life takes on the meaning that you give it.
The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the music.
I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.
The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.
