Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.

The meaning of everything is the meaning I give it

I don't want to tell what the songs are about for me, because then people can't decide for themselves, which is why I write; it's for you to find your own meaning in. For me it's my story, for someone else it's theirs; if I tell exactly what it means, then it's only my story.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

...I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.

A non-event ... is better to write about than an event, because with a non-event you can make up the meaning yourself, it means whatever you say it means.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it.

Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means to you. So I'd say it's about whatever the listener thinks it's about.

All experience is subjective.

Perception is reality. People take what they want to from things.

I prefer to read into other people's songs what I want to hear in them.

The prism through which you experience life is so unique. There is no objective experience.

My poems mean what people take them to mean.

Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.

Awareness means the capacity to see a coffeepot and hear the birds sing in one's own way and not the way one was taught.

Everyone gets meaning in different ways.

I never try to guess what anyone else will take from a movie. Every movie is such a different experience for each and every person. I don't like it when people try telling people what they should take from a movie. You should go see it with fresh eyes and see for themselves.

To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.

Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you care enough about photography, and if you know how to use it, you will want to photograph that meaningness. If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.

Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases.