Jonathan Anderson Quotes

If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind is the fact that it's 2,600 or so years old, and it was done by a human being at that time who you have such a limited ability to grasp - and yet you have this enormous ability to grasp.

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

There's something overwhelming about being in raw nature. It's got an aura about it is that is really kind of majestic and spiritual.

I visited Notre Dame at 11 in the morning and the sun was entering through the south rose window, it was so impressive. This is when architecture can be king and give people sensations, like music.

Awe is the salve that will heal our eyes.

In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.

I know now: I do not hope for anything. I do not fear anything, I have freed myself from both the mind and the heart, I have mounted much higher, I am free .

There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.

Death was not. I lived in a simple drowse:Hands and hair moved through a dream of wakening blossoms.Rain sweetened the cave and the dove still called;The flowers leaned on themselves, the flowers in hollows;And love, love sang toward.

I feel God when I find myself in a situation which spontaneously opens me to the larger reality that exists all around.

Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.

Stand in the evening light until you become transparent or until you fall asleep.

You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.

As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

When I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that I could lie for centuries and wait for the dawning of the face of God out of the awe-inspiring loving-kindness.

There are different points of view about how to approach this experience of ultimate ecstasy, as some people describe it, or ultimate nirvana or ultimate fulfillment.

That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.

If you pay sufficient attention, everything in life is magnificent, everything is a doorway to the Divine.

This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice. . . a moment of captured beauty. Those who are truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.

You can just look at a mountain and get a connection with God, you don't have to understand the mountain to feel that.

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

Keep inviolate an area of light and peace within you.

Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.