John Tavener Quotes

Every truth ever discovered, each new spiritual light that will ever burn bright has already been seeded in our consciousness.

I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.

I get my stuff from dreams from God.

There are times, you know, it's said in the Spiritual Tradition, just a glimpse at an enlightened personage can convey immense information at the sub-conscious level that sprouts later, that we don't even know.

Authentic spiritual authority is what puts you in touch with reality.

The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

Every few thousand years some shepard inhales smoke from a burning bush and has a vision or eats moldy rye bread in a cave and sees God.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.

Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.

O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.

never had interviews with the gods or were in any degree under the inspiration of Heaven.

Do not waste your faith and love on the political world, but, in the divine world of science and art, offer up your inmost being in a fiery stream of eternal creation.

I've always said that God will somehow enlighten me.

It should not be expected that what is spiritual can be brought before the eyes, before the senses. It must be experienced inwardly and spiritually.

No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way are revealed to me the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain, I would be helpless. Only alone can I draw close enough to God to discover His secrets.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

When the Divine descends, you just accommodate.

I must listen as God speaks to my soul through good thoughts, inspirations, and intuitions.

Art itself is knowledge of the spiritual world. Art is information from higher forces, by those who are talented. I'm not jiving.