Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

The body never lies.

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart... it comes from being alive.

I think you find universal truth when you get really honest with yourself and you can reach people. If you go deep enough, you have that core feeling, and that feeling can transcend the details of your experience.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth - not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.

Very seldom do we receive any support for trusting ourselves, listening to our own sense of inner truth, and expressing ourselves in a direct and honest way.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

A truth which comes to us from outside always bears the stamp of uncertainty. We can believe only what appears to each one of us in our own hearts as truth.

You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher's or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself - Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

The only thing on earth that can determine itself is a human soul.

Improvisation is not the expression of accident but rather of the accumulated yearnings, dreams and wisdom of our very soul.

Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity.

Truth is pure awareness.