Quotes About Spirits

Creativity is sacred, and it is not sacred. What we make matters enormously, and it doesn't matter at all. We toil alone, and we are accompanied by spirits. We are terrified, and we are brave. Art is a crushing chore and a wonderful privilege. Only when we are at our most playful can divinity finally get serious with us.

People talk about the way disembodied spirits roam the world with no place to park themselves, but all I can think is that I am a dispirited body, and I'm sure there are plenty of other human mollusk shells roaming around, waiting for some soul to fill them up.

Of Brother John he knew no particular evil, but the redness of his hair, the exuberance of his health and high spirits, the very way he put live blood back into old martyrdoms with his extravagant gusto in the reading, were all offensive in themselves, and jarred on the prior's aesthetic sensibilities.

Paris guards her inner beauty from the casual observer. To find it one must look beyond the façades. It is true of people also, I think: their spirits exist behind their façades, beyond their words.

God has not regulated the laws of nature to meet the demands of human vanity." The Spirits' Book

Médium é toda pessoa que sente, num grau qualquer, a influência dos Espíritos. Essa faculdade é inerente ao homem e, por conseguinte, não constitui um privilégio exclusivo. Por isso mesmo, raras são as pessoas que não possuem alguns rudimentos dessa faculdade. Pode-se, pois, dizer que todos são mais ou menos médiuns.

The current's energy depends on the strength of the thought and the will; this is how prayer is heard by spirits wherever they may be, how

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.

I haven't done as much proper travelling as I'd like to have done. However, I know how important the weather is for my mood and spirits.

When we set out on a consciously chosen course of action that accents the good of others and is, for the most part, a hidden work, a deep change occurs in our spirits.

I'm always careful. It's whiskey that isn't careful.

I have come from the Land of the Spirits," she said in a voice that was both humble and strong. "We have been watching you and we have been distressed at what we have seen. You have allowed this time of scarcity to take you away from the Teachings. Instead of sharing and living in harmony with each other, you steal and fight and plot against each other. Instead of living in gratitude for what you have, you live in anger for what you do not have. Instead of seeking to live in balance

was used to deter and chase away evil spirits, and to determine where they came from.

Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.

There are kisses and kisses. Some are given in sport and some in passion. There are formal kisses of greeting and departure, and there are perfunctory pecks of accustomed affection. Once in a great while lips meet and two spirits merge for a time and the universe is right and complete and the planets wheel in their proper places. Once in a while the lonely, broken spirit of man is healed and made whole. For a while his quest is over and his questions are answered.

Disembodied spirits," said his partner, "are not known to use telephones. Neither are spooks, phantoms, or werewolves." "That was in the old days. Why shouldn't they change with the times and be modern, too?

I don't know how I'll be as a shaman. I'll find out when I try it. You both know me. You've known me since before we even had names. I can't travel in my dreams, or above the sky. There aren't any spirits that talk to me or through me. I can't sing the songs. I can't help people who are sick. But I'll tell you this, and he raised his right forefinger before them and seized them with his eyes: —I can paint that fucking cave.

With every movie I produce, I learn something. I watch the directors. It's like the relationship you have with your children. I'm there to learn from my daughters. They are the perfect spirits.

You tell me the dead are coming through a crack in my barn, but I shouldn't worry?

Elvis is in the kitchen and he's making eggs Benedict!

He thinks you were trapped in a tree in the 1920s. How is that not crazy?

Nothing like a dose of spirits of the dead to chase away spirits of the vine.

When the cobwebs and dust pile up, all the musty thoughts and forgotten emotions get caught in their webs and attract spirits and all sorts of chaotic energy.

There are a few of the open-air spirits; the more domestic of their tribe gather within-doors, plentiful as swallows under southern eaves.