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Jay Woodman Quotes | Quotes said by Jay Woodman

  • Jay Woodman Quote #1

    ... as we travel again between life and death,
    Waking and dream, blinking, while layers within layers,
    None better, none worse, unravel and knit up before us . . .

  • Jay Woodman Quote #2

    2015 - the year of infinity - if you add all the numbers up you get 8 - which on it's side is the sign of infinity - and I think it's going to be one hell of a good year for us.

  • Jay Woodman Quote #3

    5 words of advice to reduce stress - Connect with your Soul's power or Change your reality through Coaching.

  • Jay Woodman Quote #4

    Allow the light to fall across you. Shadow or sunlight. Allow it to define your shape. In its way. Another day it may be different. It surely will be. Are we ever the same? Is the light? And the way a form presses into the grass?

  • Jay Woodman Quote #5

    Always question what other things than the top layer are proceeding on beneath.

  • Jay Woodman Quote #6

    APPROACH

    Rain is falling. Winter approaches. I drive towards it. In the slow rain. In the semi-darkness. Cello music is playing in the car. The deep sad sound of the cello. It almost swamps me. Routine endeavours to swamp me. The everyday paying of bills.

    But I paint men walking in a city of icebergs and crystal. Some of the icebergs are red. I paint a woman swimming in green wavy water. Surrounded by desert mesas. Bright orange in the sunlight. With darker orange for shadows. I paint two people. With purple and pink and yellow and blue circles overlapping the boundaries of their bodies. Dancing.

    Life is not ordinary. When I see you tonight I will press my lips to your eyelids. Each one in turn. I will rub my fingertips over the skin on the back of your hands and around your wrists. I will sigh. I will growl. I will whinny. I will gallop into your smile. One sharp foot after the other.

  • Jay Woodman Quote #7

    Art is the expression of appreciation of beauty real or imagined. It's also an examination of what it means to be alive with all its varied things, emotions, and experiences. We are forever trying to explain ourselves to the world or the world to ourselves.

  • Jay Woodman Quote #8

    ART

    The world is full of confusion and contradiction. We cannot expect to do anything that is absolutely right. We can only measure rightness by the truth within ourselves. And our own truth will never be quite the same as somebody else's. I wish that I could touch you and be sure that it was the right thing to do. I only want to touch you briefly. Just once so that you will know. We are flesh and blood and full of faults. But we are also full of warmth. The world is full of confusion but there is compassion in its midst. communication via simple touch can transmit so much of us in just one minute. Like a painting or a piece of music. I want to touch your soul. I only wish I could be sure it was the right thing to do.

  • Jay Woodman Quote #9

    Be confident to make your magic.

  • Jay Woodman Quote #10

    Be honest with yourself, face your feelings and what they really mean, then you will be able to deal with them and move on.

  • Jay Woodman Quote #11

    Be still and know you are loved –
    Feel the arms of the universe
    Rocking you to its steady hum.

  • Jay Woodman Quote #12

    Being here to witness the beauty, to learn, to be astonished, to love - is enough. Being able to create in addition is a delightful honour.

  • Jay Woodman Quote #13

    Breath (from the book Blue Bridge)

    Whispering to myself
    With every step I take,
    Trying out names, for I know
    There is something yet to be called …..

    I know it, something up ahead
    Just around the bend
    Or over the rise –
    A bird taking to the sky
    From the edge of a jagged cliff –
    A bird floating outwards
    In silence ……. A silence
    Waiting for a footstep
    To crunch on stones,
    For a voice to fling upward
    Through sharp sunlight
    With a name…… calling
    Before the bird could call
    Before the bird called.

    Oh the bird was there alright
    And sure it took flight
    When it heard me approach
    But it broke my heart
    With a mighty croak!

    So I’m sitting here playing
    With a purple flower
    Slender stem, no leaves
    Purple fizz –

    And it’s quiet again.
    I am still
    I am nothing
    And the hill
    Is a long, long slope
    Down, down, down to the sea
    Far below.

    I could roll
    I could run
    I could scream
    But I am nothing.

    A cool wind blows
    And the light is naked and nameless
    And the rocks are faces of angels
    And the bird in the sky wheels
    And cries to forget the earth
    And its ancient bones –
    Oh, sensual pain –
    Wings…. Wings…. Wings,
    Singing wings.

    If only I could begin
    To describe the emptiness
    Which fills me to the brim
    With new breath

    I might almost lose my name
    And take instead a feather for my soul.

  • Jay Woodman Quote #14

    Breathe in that vital connection to the life source and sensual beauty everywhere. Feel loved and strong.

  • Jay Woodman Quote #15

    Can we be clear about who we are, what we want? Can we be fully present in our truth, and communicate that? Can we understand each other?

  • Jay Woodman Quote #16

    Can we just be grateful for beauty & joy, fascination & tolerance, humour & love, nature & grace, and simply release any anger and pains?

  • Jay Woodman Quote #17

    Cherish the fabulous, the fantastic, the beautiful, the graceful, the moments of abandon, laughter, quirkiness. Cherish the tiny incredible details, the gigantic & varied display, and the infinite depths - of life.

  • Jay Woodman Quote #18

    Cherish the others in your life. Cherish your freedom to be yourself. Cherish your freedom to choose who you want to be, what you want to do next.

  • Jay Woodman Quote #19

    Colour outside the lines, live outside the box. Don’t let anyone tell you what to do, or not. Don’t be afraid, listen to your heart.
    Heaven is a state of being – of one-ness, and Hell is a state of being – lost. We simply need to live as we best define ourselves, find our own ways of being who we are in our world.
    There is no requirement - only freedom of choice. We should not be judged if we are doing what we think best according to our perceptions at any given time.
    Guilt should be discarded, moved beyond - what matters is who we choose to be in the next moment, given what we might have learned. We continually create ourselves anew.
    Forgiving someone is a great way to show love, and forgive yourself too for the hurt you held onto far too long.
    Take back the energy you have wasted on these things and reclaim your power to be your next best self.
    Honour the past but refresh, expand, renew, fulfill. Heaven is within us, always reachable.

  • Jay Woodman Quote #20

    Consciousness is everywhere, let it fill you up.

  • Jay Woodman Quote #21

    Count the times. The number of times you have seen the silence of another world seep though a crack. The number of times you have heard the sea trying to escape from the blue painted wall.

  • Jay Woodman Quote #22

    CREEP

    Other people have written about war. About how one plane sweeps over and the whole place is ablaze in minutes. About how a young man may kill another young many with perfect legality. I prefer to write about less sudden things. About how we inch further away without even noticing. And then it's too late. Or is it? No it's not too late to say sorry, we were wrong, let's try again to get along. No, it's not too late to quit lying, halt the greed, stop polluting air earth and seas. I prefer to write about less noisy things. About change happening so gradually that one day you just accept the world as different. And you don't question because you're old, and you don't feel like making waves, and anyway, they'd say you were insane.......

  • Jay Woodman Quote #23

    Dance your Soulful path / and you shall know the magic / of your mind & heart / and all the beauty laughing / to fill your rising self.

  • Jay Woodman Quote #24

    Don't be afraid to be authentic, show up in the world as you truly are.
    Be as you mean to be, but be light with it. Love it, give it, share it, laugh at it, walk everywhere with it.
    Be in the world but not OF it.

  • Jay Woodman Quote #25

    Don't be afraid. You are never really alone. Just be yourself. You don't ever have to pretend you are someone else. If you try to do that, then you don't have anything to give the world. Accept and give your gifts with love.

  • Jay Woodman Quote #26

    Don't let anyone take your power by influencing what you do.... sure ask for advice when you are still deciding, but once you are sure what you want to go for, don't let anyone deflect you. It is YOUR choice to make and to follow through.

  • Jay Woodman Quote #27

    Each pain is Unbearable / yet Trifling
    Seeing the TRUTH is Excruciating / yet Exquisite
    Through Laugher & Tears / Grinning & Fear, we face our demons.

  • Jay Woodman Quote #28

    Enlightenment is not about cocooning one’s self, but about integrating more fully with both your self and life.

  • Jay Woodman Quote #29

    Even cats have questions – like “Can’t you see my bowl is empty?” or “Why don’t you turn off the ***! rain now?” From their perspective we are gods!

  • Jay Woodman Quote #30

    Every moment - something beautiful happens.

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