“In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.” MeanSoulBeliefPrayerAbsolutesSymbolsAbsolute TruthAbsolute Love Book:Mixed Pasture: Twelve Essays and Addresses Source: Mixed Pasture: Twelve Essays and Addresses
“Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.” RelationAbsolutesSymbolsAbsolute Truth Book:Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks Source: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
“The question occurred to me: Well, if that's so, if the Divine is ultimately formless and genderless, what's the big deal? Why all this bother? The bother is because we have no other way of speaking about the Absolute. We need forms and images. Without them we have no way of relating to the Divine. Symbol and image create a universal spiritual language. It's the language the soul understands.” IfsWayNeedsWellsSoulBigsSpiritualFormLanguageDealsDivineUniversalAbsolutesSymbolsBotherBig Deal Author:Sue Monk Kidd
“Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.” WallConceptsRelationAbsolutesSymbolsExistentialismFabulousPrimalAbsolute Truth Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities.” ArtSaidSpiritualUniverseActivityAbsolutesSymbolsLinkedPragmaticSpiritual Truth Author:Andrei Tarkovsky