Saul Williams Quotes

without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my past was my life.

Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges?

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.

Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.

To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on

My soul is not a palace of the past.

I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don't feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime.

Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.

What happened to me in Somalia doesn't define me.

I wouldn't have really committed myself to any kind of spiritual lifestyle, I don't think, if I had not endured great suffering. I think that's the case with a lot of people.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

A lot of the time, I write in the third person, but I'm mostly describing my own ordeals. When those unsettled struggles prey on your mind, you become haunted. To get free, you must defeat your ghosts.

Trauma and pain and suffering can be the very thing that dislodges a person from themselves both in awful ways and larger ways that force one to reckon with one's own life.

We're in soul business here.

With 'Guzaarish' I went through a catharsis.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

Juno MacGuff: I don't know what kind of girl I am.

Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't be able to stand looking at it. But it's when we're willing to come face to face with that demon that we face the angel.

Everyone always says that love was enough. It wasn't. Not when your soul has been shattered.

What does it mean when a man falls in love with a radiant face across the room? It may mean that he has some soul work to do. His soul is the issue. Instead of pursuing the woman and trying to get her alone, away from her husband, he needs to go alone himself, perhaps to a mountain cabin, for three months, write poetry, canoe down a river, and dream. That would save some women a lot of trouble.