Natalia Makarova Quotes

The place that I'm trying to come from and where I'm trying to make music from is when I feel like I'm able to somehow, like, transcend it all and just speak right to God.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

Dancing is more than just moving body parts; it is a pathway of expressing your deepest inner thoughts.

I believe in spirit and then I believe a manifestation of spirit is dance

The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning.

You play with your soul as well as your body.

Religion is organized, and spirituality is what the individual feels in his relationship with truth and with God. And although spirituality may be expressed in a religion, many people are spiritual and never go to church. They aren't religious in the sense that they practice a certain type of discipline.

Prayer is intended to increase the devotion of the individual, but if the individual himself prays he requires no formula; he pours himself forth much more naturally in self-chosen and connected thoughts before God, and scarcely requires words at all. Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls.

I am the visible part of the invisible Christ. He is the invisible part of the visible me.

Dance is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual

The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner soul art and life are inseparable

God created us in such a way that our inner self is in the spiritual world and our outer self is in the physical world. This was so that the spiritual part of us, which belongs in heaven, could be planted in the physical part the way a seed is planted in the ground.

‎Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.

I still feel like everybody else, that I'm just growing and learning. Basically, I feel pleased to have discovered this thing that's inside me, that's connected to the same thing that's inside everybody and everything.

The spirit of dance is an amazing thing. When the body and the spirit meet, it's a good thing.

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us

Life is but the expression of spirit through matter. To make life manifest requires the union of spirit and body.

Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you allow life to happen within you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch the spirit.

For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.

There's a great quote about Virginia Woolf, she had the same spiritual stake in her diaries as she had in her writing.

Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.