I prefer to be ignorant of your disease of invention and your debauchery of confused ideas.
Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. Paul Valery
MUSIC is a higher evaluation than all wisdom and philosophy.
MUSIC is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
MUSIC should stroke fire from the heart of man and bring tears from the eyes of women. Ludwig van Beethoven
Whatever it is about you that disturbs people, cultivate that, because that is who you really are. JEAN COCTEAU
THOUGHT has been constantly evolving and we can’t say when that system began. David Bohm
The light is within. It is already there. Take your time to see it.
Swami Satchidananda
YOJU TEACH BEST WHAT YOU BEST NEED TO LEARN. RICHARD BACH
MAMA FELT VERY SAFE. ISABELLA ROSSILINI
I’ve always felt that I and many of the people I admire are figments of our own imagination. Kris Kristoferson
It’s all about vision. Inner vision. I don’t typically work from the outside world.
The great hidden tradition in painting is time and art historians miss it consistently — time and the unfolding of awareness. The movement of consciousness is the real subject of a lot of old master paintings. Bill Viola
I want to write about something that would apply to any time because it’s a state of the soul. Edna O’brien
A MUSICIAN’S SPECIAL FLAVOR COMES OUT WITH AGE. SEIJI OZAWA
You’re just lucky to be conscious for a limited amount of time and what you’re able to do with your consciousness is up to you. You don’t win anything.There’s nothing to win. Frank Stella
TOTALITARIANISM IS PATRIOTISM INSTITUTIONALIZED. STEVE ALLEN
PEACE IS THE INNER NATURE OF HUMANKIND. If you find it within yourself, you will find it everywhere.
Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
Ramana Maharishi
Denis Johnson’s three rules to write by:
Write naked. That means to write what you would never say.
Write in blood. As if ink is so precious you can’t waste it.
Write in exile. As if you are never going to get home again
and you have to call back every detail.
HATRED is a transformative power. It can make the innocuous into the menacing.
Racism is endemic to the human condition — just as stupidity is.
Shelby Steele
THE GOAL OF ART WAS THE VITAL EXPRESSION OF SELF.
When I make a picture I make love. Alfred Steiglitz
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love & death. E.M.Forster
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
Maria Edgeworth
Social platforms are a social conscience. And influencers are digital stewards of that conscience.
IT IS NOT THE STRENGTH OF THE BODY THAT COUNTS BUT THE STRENGTH OF THE SPIRIT. J.R.R. TOLKIEN
To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
TRUTH IS THE OFFSPRING OF SILENCE & MEDITATION. Issac Newton
You learn to love the world only by looking at it closely, in the round.
The external world is so intense now that the internal almost gets drowned out.
The sacred is not a sanctuary — it’s a force field. In many ways a forest fire.
Pico Iyer
As an actress I’m drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms & I’m fortunate to have thoughts & feelings at my fingertips. Diane Keaton