Spiritual Resonance Quotes

Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.

What do I want to express? The subject means little. The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or all of these fills the bill. There is something additional, a breath that draws your breath into its breathing, a heartbeat that pounds on yours, a recognition of the oneness of all things.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

You know what music is - a harmonic connection between all living beings.

Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world

Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost.

For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

It's important as a writer to do my art well and do it in a way that is powerful and beautiful and meaningful, so that my work regenerates the people, certainly Indian people, and the earth and the sun. And in that way we all continue forever.

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.

Nina Simone's music is incredibly honest. That's like saying, "Why does Jesus' word still stay around?" It's incredibly honest and it's good.

How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.

How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry," Casals said. "As I got on with the study I discovered a new world of space and beauty... the feelings I experienced were among the purest and most intense in my artistic life!

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.

Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

I have to tell you that J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it's like meditation.

I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.

The true poem is the poet's mind.

Music is universal; it speaks to people's souls on the deepest level.

Music links us humans, heart to heart...Across time and space, and life and death.

The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.

A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.