Internal Landscape Quotes

Things outside you are projections of what's inside you, and what's inside you is a projection of what's outside. So when you step into the labyrinth outside you, at the same time you're stepping into the labyrinth inside.

Heaven and hell are not geographical. If you go in search of them you will never find them anywhere. They are within you, they are psychological. The mind is heaven, the mind is hell, and the mind has the capacity to become either. But people go on thinking everything is somewhere outside. We always go on looking for everything outside because to be inwards is very difficult. We are outgoing. If somebody says there is a god, we look at the sky. Somewhere, sitting there, will be the divine person.

I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

The way we experience the world around us is a direct reflection of the world within us.

inside us, a flower taken whole, a field built inside.

None of us exist in a world that is the same world that any of the rest of us live in. The world that's important is the world behind each of our eyes, which is something that none of the rest of us can access.

The world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them.

When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more.

The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.'

I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.