Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
Humans navigate physical and spiritual realms, marking their inner journey on reality.
In plain terms
People live in two worlds and record their spiritual journey on their surroundings.
What can you take from it?
Life blends physical action with spiritual experience.

Where it applies

  • self-reflection
  • artistic creation
  • life review

Putting it to work

  • reflect on inner life
  • express spiritual journey
  • balance worlds

Questions to consider

  • What worlds do you walk?
  • How do you mark your path?

Another view

It assumes a spiritual dimension exists.

More from Morris West

  1. 'It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the enlightenment, or the courage, to pay the price:. One has to abandon altogether…

    Permalink to quote #11
  2. 'If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.'

    Permalink to quote #13
  3. 'Who said to me, a foetus in the womb, a puling babe, 'You have your life, but on the condition that you thus believe?' No one! Not even God! So gentlemen, I s…

    Permalink to quote #10

Related quotes

  1. God preaches, a noted Clergyman - And the sermon is never long, So instead of getting to Heaven, at last- I'm going, all along.

    Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson quote #9
  2. Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next.

    J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger quote #49
  3. In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual clai…

    Alfred North WhiteheadAlfred North Whitehead quote #1