Cat Stevens Quotes

I wonder from these thousand of "me's", which one am I? Listen to my cry, do not drown my voice I am completely filled with the thought of you. Don't lay broken glass on my path I will crush it into dust. I am nothing, just a mirror in the palm of your hand, reflecting your kindness, your sadness, your anger. If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower I will pitch my tent in your shadow. Only your presence revives my withered heart. You are the candle that lights the whole world and I am an empty vessel for your light. Rumi - "Hidden Music

Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.

Sometimes I was so busy being tuned in to outside ideas, expectations, and demands, I failed to hear the unique music in my soul. I forfeited my ability to listen creatively to my deepest self, to my own God within.

Gaga came to me, and I just could not find a soul. I come from church; maybe that has something to do with it. I like to get to the soul of a person. I just didn't feel a soul.

In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.

I loafe and invite my soul.

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.

Prayer draws us near to our own souls.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.

I am not a spiritual guy, but all of a sudden I felt the need to really feel things.

That's what I enjoy most about my music - that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.

I think my soul is intact, but my methods of reaching people are completely different.

We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune... Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the soul furnishes the entertainment.

You spend all this time reading or thinking or praying or searching or exploring.Maybe there's an Omega Point of love.

I feel most at home when I'm alone. That's not sad. It's just I feel closest to source and connection when I'm by myself.

I listen to myself, listen to my heart.

I want people to find their inner depth.

It turns out that our ability to connect with other people is driven by our ability to connect deeply with ourselves. And that can be just a few minutes sitting on your porch feeling the breeze against your face. That can be a few moments spent in meditation or in prayer or remembering three things you're grateful for.

All great and precious things are lonely.

Soul is a feeling, not a color.

Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.