Inner Response Quotes

A spiritual life is 24 hours a day, seven days a week. How do you live? What's true? How do you respond? It's not about living by beliefs; it's about wanting to know.

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.

Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.

W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you.

How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Our response, our attitude, depends on our realisation of God's attitude toward us. If I experience love or have experienced it, this is the means whereby I can explore the mystery of God's love.

It's hard to explain music when it goes in your gut and makes left and right and turns and moves you and resonates with you.

Many people do not distinguish between something that happens to them and their reaction to it. Yet it isn't the event or situation that holds the emotional charge; it's our beliefs that create our response.

You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child? Has everybody who has seen them also loved heath, fields, meadows, woods, and the snow and the rain and the s.

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. That the starry vault shall surcharge the heart with all rapturous marvelings, is only because we ourselves are greater miracles, and superber trophies than all the stars in universal space.

Music's something you feel. You have to feel it first before you hear it.

You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.

There is something to mystery. You make up this entire world that you fit into because of what the actual music does to you.

How does your heart respond to the thought that the Universe is alive and compassionate and that with it and with other souls of great power and Light you learn through the process of co-creating the reality that you experience?

When you observe yourself reacting to what are minor things in your life, you will find that the mechanism is the same as when major things seem to go wrong in your life and there is upset.