Howard Carter Quotes

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

Those to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut, have not yet visited the house of their souls whose windows are open from dawn to dawn.

The finding of God is the coming to one's own self.

You have to be an original individual; you have to find your innermost core on your own, with no guide, no guiding scriptures. It is a dark night, but with the intense fire of inquiry you are bound to come to the sunrise. Everybody who has burned with intense inquiry has found the sunrise. Others only believe. Those who believe are not religious, they are simply avoiding the great adventure of religion by believing.

There is more that meets the eye, I see the soul that is inside.

I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.

The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden; and like a mirror, they also reflect the person looking into them.

I first believed without any hesitation in the existence of the soul, and then I wondered about the secret of its nature. I persevered and strove in search of the soul, and found at last that I myself was the cover over my soul!

I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face.

The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center.

What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.

I am extremely spiritual. I've not gone into this before because it's personal, but faith is the core of my life.

It does not matter where you come from, if you walk toward the truth you will reach it, whatever path you take.

There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.

For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

The search for total knowledge starts from the Self and finds its fulfillment in coming back to the Self, finding that everything is the expression of the Self - everything is the expression of my own Self.

The truth is dark under your eyelids.

In some ways Holy Smoke is about people's journey to the heart.

The truth is the last thing that matters,' she said. 'And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.

This is where you can find your soul if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you've never dared look at before. Do not come here and ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind.

Don't go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth.

In a world where I have to hide my heart and what I believe in. But somehow I will show the world what's inside.