Robert James Waller Quotes

Live from the heart of yourself

We must be willing to take an honest look at ourselves and step out beyond our judgmental mind. It is here that we will have a life-altering shift in perception, an opening of our heart.

To change your mind under the direction of the wisdom of the heart is a brush stroke on the masterpiece you are delivering to the world.

He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.

In life you only have to travel 6 inches. That is the distance from your mind to your heart.

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows

Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.

The mind knows only what lies near the heart.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

Following your feelings will lead you to their source. Only through emotions can you encounter the force field of your own soul.

You must direct your full, intense concentration on the heart. You must feel that you are not the mind. You have to feel that you are growing into the heart. You are only the heart and nothing else.

Your heart often knows things before your mind does.

When the wisdom of the heart replaces the chatter of the mind, The power of Love flows forth.

Feel your intentions in your heart. Feel not what your mind tells you, but what your heart tells you.

My vision is to elevate the consciousness of humanity one mind, one heart, one life, one spirit at a time. They are married.

You have to lose your mind in order to regain your senses.

There's a disconnect between my mind and my heart, but I feel the truth. They say when people lose their vision, their hearing comes sharper. I've lost part of my memory but maybe my intuition is stronger.

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

You must be true to your own way until at last you actually come to the point where you see it is necessary to forget all about yourself.

Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.

Turn away from the world this year and begin to listen. Listen to the whispers of your heart. Look within. Your silent companion has lit lanterns of love to illuminate the path to Wholeness. At long last, the journey you were destined to take has begun.