J. Donald Walters Quotes

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

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.

Your heart often knows things before your mind does.

Truth is first felt in the heart before the mind. Those that look for truth through the mind before the heart will never find Truth.

Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?

The primary wisdom is intuition.

We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.

Instinct is the direct connection with truth.

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

Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

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

Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.

I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

There are many kinds of truth. But truth communicated by beauty is the only pure one. The only one that touches me in the heart.

That's what I am. I warn people. Whenever I see and I feel things in my heart, I speak it.

The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth.

There is always one true inner voice. Trust it.

She knew this music--knew it down to the very core of her being--but she had never heard it before. Unfamiliar, it had still always been there inside her, waiting to be woken. It grew from the core of mystery that gives a secret its special delight, religion its awe. It demanded to be accepted by simple faith, not dissected or questioned, and at the same time, it begged to be doubted and probed.

Also, go inside and listen to your body, because your body will never lie to you. Your mind will play tricks, but the way you feel in your heart, in your guts, is the truth.

A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.