“As a composer, I believe that music has the power to inspire a renewal of human consciousness, culture, and politics. And yet I refuse to make political art. More often than not political art fails as politics, and all too often it fails as art. To reach its fullest power, to be most moving and most fully useful to us, art must be itself.” BelieveHumansArtMovingPoliticalCultureI BelieveConsciousnessFailingInspireRefuseComposerRenewalHuman ConsciousnessPolitical Art Author:John Luther Adams
“An essential virtue is humility. ... The principle of humility and prayer leads one to feel a need of divine guidance. Self-reliance is a virtue, but with it should go a consciousness of the need of superior help-a consciousness that as you walk firmly in the pathway of duty, there is a possibility of your making a misstep; and with that consciousness is a prayer, a pleading that God will inspire you to avoid that false step” NeedsFeelsShouldSelfHelpingPrayerWalksConsciousnessStepsPrinciplesVirtuePossibilityHumilityInspireDivineDutyEssentialsGods WillSuperiorsGuidanceSelf RelianceReliancePathwaysPleadingDivine Guidance Author:David O. McKay
“I don't think I have ever really gotten Leopold Bloom's interior ramblings out of my head! I am sure that voice continues to inspire the walking consciousness in my work - that is, the way I carry on an interior monologue as I walk through this city.” ThinkingWayVoiceWalksCitiesConsciousnessInspireWalkingInteriorsMonologuesRambling Author:Stephen Vincent Benet
“So many people are passive participants in their very short time of having a consciousness, and those who aren't inspire me. Like Malala Yousafzai or a ninety-two-year-old yoga instructor.” PeopleConsciousnessInspireYogaPassive Author:Dylan Gelulla
“We're all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness.” ConsciousnessInspireMoodUpliftingAffected Author:Andrew Weil
“Mystical experience of nature can be of particular relevance to our troubled age, bringing deeper into our consciousness and emotions the logic that nature sustains humanity as humanity must, in turn, sustain nature. Rationality alone, however, cannot be our guide in the task of restoring our environment. A spiritual connection to nature must inspire the emotional commitment that is the yin, complementing the yang of intellectual understanding.” AgeSpiritualHumanityTurnsUnderstandingEmotionConsciousnessEnvironmentEmotionalInspireParticularIntellectualCommitmentTasksConnectionsLogicDeeperGuidesContemplationMysticalRationalityOur EnvironmentRelevanceRestoringYangSpiritual ConnectionMystical Experiences Book:Ecomysticism: The Profound Experience of Nature as Spiritual Guide Source: Ecomysticism: The Profound Experience of Nature as Spiritual Guide