Soulful Pursuit Quotes

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it's their path, it's what excites them, it's what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

In order to profit from this path [of prayer] and ascend to the dwelling places we desire, the important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so, do that which best stirs you to love.

Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?

I'm a student of cinema in general, not just of one particular genre. So it was very important to me and to my soul to go out and do something different.

The road to your soul is through your heart.

For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.

My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather than a job. I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would.

The search for God means having the courage to set out on a risky path, it means following our restless hearts.

In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.

Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.