David LaChapelle Quotes

Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

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

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

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.

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.

All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

I meditate and pray multiple times a week to guide myself with divine clarity.

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.

I'm not religious, but I do pray. It's 60 seconds of meditation, visualizing myself, looking at myself, and being conscious of my own consciousness. That will align me for the rest of the day.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection.

Only when the clamor of the outside world is silenced will you be able to hear the deeper vibration. Listen carefully.

When you don't know what to do, do nothing. Get quiet so you can hear the still, small voice.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit; and our wandering thoughts in prayer are but the neglects of meditation and recessions from that duty; according as we neglect meditation, so are our prayers imperfect, - meditation being the soul of prayer and the intention of our spirit.

I named this place Listening Point because only when one comes to listen, only when one is aware and still, can things be seen and heard. Everyone has a listening point somewhere. It does not have to be in the north or close to the wilderness, but someplace of quiet where the universe can be contemplated with awe.

The beginning of prayer is silence.

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

Be quiet. Part of your responsibility is to honour the quiet inside yourself so you can hear the call.

Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain one moment without thought, great power will come.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from 'hurry sickness.' Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

I'm really in touch, whether it's prayer or meditation... there are so many powers greater than me in the world. I've been blessed and lucky enough to have been given a gift to share with other people.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

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

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.