Bach Inspiring Quotes

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven's or Bach's music becomes the mood of your whole life … when your thinking is in harmony, and no longer in conflict, with your feelings … when you let yourself be guided by the thoughts of great sages and no longer by the crimes of great warriors … when you pay the men and women who teach your children better than the politicians; when truths inspire you and empty formulas repel you; when you communicate with your fellow workers in foreign countries directly, and no longer through diplomats...

don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

Harmony is next to Godliness

Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding.

All the people, all the events in your life are put there for a reason. What you choose to do with them is up to you

If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it.

Keep working on love.

The only law is one which leads to freedom

¡Si nuestra amistad depende de cosas como el espacio y el tiempo, entonces, cuando por fin superemos el espacio y el tiempo, habremos destruido nuestra propia hermandad! Pero supera el espacio, y nos quedará sólo un Aquí. Supera el tiempo, y nos quedará sólo un Ahora. Y entre el Aquí y el Ahora, ¿no crees que podremos volver a vernos un par de veces?

For each of them, the most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which they most loved to do...

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

Rompe las cadenas de tu pensamiento, y romperás también las cadenas de tu cuerpo

You've sacrificed your entire life to be who you are today. Was it worth it?

Jonahtan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short,and with these gone from his thought,he lived a long life indeed.

GREAT SECRET Whenever I’m learning something difficult, I keep expectations low, and aspirations high.

Don't cry for me, for I go where music was born.

Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!… We choose our next world through what we learn in this one…

Whatever harm I would do to another, I shall do first to myself. As I respect and am kind to myself, so shall I respect and be kind to peers, to elders, to kits. I claim for others the freedom to live as they wish, to think and believe as they will. I claim that freedom for myself. I shall make each choice and live each day to my highest sense of right.

The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other.

¿Tienes idea de cuántas vidas debimos cruzar antes de que lográramos la primera idea de que hay más en la vida que comer, luchar o alcanzar poder en la Bandada? ¡Mil vidas, Juan, diez mil! Y luego cien vidas más hasta que empezáramos a aprender que hay algo llamado perfección, y otras cien para comprender que la meta de la vida es encontrar esa perfección y reflejarla.

Yo ya no soy el mismo.Ya no pregunto cómo será mi destino. Le debo a Ezequiel el haberme enseñado que la vida no es más que eso: asomar la cabeza, para ver qué pasa fuera, aunque haya tormenta. Y una Suite de Bach

What does it matter if two brains are isomorphic, or quasi-isomorphic, or not isomorphic at all? The answer is that we have an intuitive sense that, although other people differ from us in important ways, they are still 'the same' as we are in some deep and important ways. It would be instructive to be able to pinpoint what this invariant core of human intelligence is, and then to be able to describe the kinds of 'embellishments' which can be added to it, making each one of us a unique embodiment of this abstract and mysterious quality called 'intelligence.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands.

Absurdly, irrationally, she believed that music could make a difference to the temper of the world.She did not investigate this belief, test it to see whether it made sense;she simply believed it, and so she chose music that expressed order and healing:Bach for order, Mozart for healing.

While philosophers were still debating whether a machine could be constructed to reproduce the thoughts of Newton, the emotions of Bach or the inspiration of Michelangelo, the average man of science was rapidly becoming convinced that no machine could be constructed to reproduce the light of a candle or the fall of an apple.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

I just want to know what I can do in the air and what I can't

Every person, all the events in your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Anyone who works as I do will succeed as I do.

Anyone who works as hard as I do will succeed as I do.

I once was the guest of the week on a British radio show called Desert Island Discs. You have to choose the eight records you would take with you if marooned on a desert island. Among my choices was Mache dich mein Herze rein from Bach’s St Matthew Passion. The interviewer was unable to understand how I could choose religious music without being religious. You might as well say, how can you enjoy Wuthering Heights when you know perfectly well that Cathy and Heathcliff never really existed? But there is an additional point that I might have made, and which needs to be made whenever religion is given credit for, say, the Sistine Chapel or Raphael’s Annunciation. Even great artists have to earn a living, and they will take commissions where they are to be had. I have no reason to doubt that Raphael and Michelangelo were Christians—it was pretty much the only option in their time—but the fact is almost incidental. Its enormous wealth had made the Church the dominant patron of the arts. If history had worked out differently, and Michelangelo had been commissioned to paint a ceiling for a giant Museum of Science, mightn’t he have produced something at least as inspirational as the Sistine Chapel? How sad that we shall never hear Beethoven’s Mesozoic Symphony, or Mozart’s opera The Expanding Universe. And what a shame that we are deprived of Haydn’s Evolution Oratorio—but that does not stop us from enjoying his Creation.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls a butterfly.” —Richard David Bach The caterpillar believes it is dying because it's being sealed in a tomb. The Master knows that the caterpillar is not dying, and is simply transitioning (to something more). This points out that things are never over, that change is carrying us, (so often kicking and screaming), to higher states of being. I find it interesting that the caterpillar spends it's caterpillar existence crawling, (on a lone weed in the midst of an endless beautiful forest), surviving on bitter, poisonous leaves. Yet resists the changes to come. After the caterpillars "death"... And upon the butterflie's rebirth... The butterfly lives out it's butterfly existence experiencing all of the forest's wonders, being carried by the wind, landing on beauty, and drinking sweet nectar, all the while, being shielded from harm by the caterpillar's bitter and poisonous experiences of eating the weeds. Without the struggles of the caterpillar, the butterfly could never be. It is Truly wonderful how something as simple as caterpillars and butterflies can be such amazing reminders sent to us by a Loving Eternal Creator.

Observe this beautiful fact: By bringing us into communion with God, prayer makes us share in God’s creativity. Contemplation nourishes our creative faculties and our inventiveness, particularly in the realm of beauty. Contemporary art is cruelly lacking in inspiration and very often produces nothing but painful ugliness, when people are so thirsty for beauty. Only a renewal of faith and prayer will enable artists to rediscover the sources of true creativity, so that they will once again be able to provide people with the beauty they so badly need, as was done by Fra Angelico, Rembrandt, or Johann Sebastian Bach. 5.

The only answer I can see, Jonathan, is that you are pretty well a one-in-a-million bird. Most of us came along ever so slowly. We went from one world into another that was almost exactly like it, forgetting right away where we had come from, not caring where we were headed, living for the moment. Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! And then another hundred lives until we began to learn that there is such a thing as perfection, and another hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth. The same rule holds for us now, of course: we choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

What J. S. Bach gained from his Lutheranism to inform his music, what Jonathan Edwards took from the Reformed tradition to orient his philosophy, what A. H. Francke learned from German Pietism to inspire the University of Halle’s research into Sanskrit and Asian literatures, what Jacob van Ruisdael gained from his seventeenth-century Dutch Calvinism to shape his painting, what Thomas Chalmers took from Scottish Presbyterianism to inspire his books on astronomy and political economy, what Abraham Kuyper gained from pietistic Dutch Calvinism to back his educational, political, and communications labors of the late nineteenth century, what T. S. Eliot took from high-church Anglicanism as a basis for his cultural criticism, what Evelyn Waugh found for his novels in twentieth-century Catholicism, what Luci Shaw, Shirley Nelson, Harold Fickett, and Evangeline Paterson found to encourage creative writing from other forms of Christianity after they left dispensationalism behind — precious few fundamentalists or their evangelical successors have ever found in the theological insights of twentieth-century dispensationalism, Holiness, or Pentecostalism. As

Sie hatte genug Trübsal geblasen! Wenn sie nicht wollte, dass ihre Zukunft den Bach herunterging, dann musste sie das Problem selbst angehen. Ihr Vater konnte als Gouverneur zwar dafür sorgen, dass sie ihren Entführer nie wieder sehen musste, aber das reichte ihr nicht. Er würde dennoch für immer ihr Bündnispartner sein und die Tatsache, dass sie ohne ihn, ohne seine regelmäßige Berührung, noch nicht einmal das kleinste Fitzelchen ihrer Kräfte nutzen konnte, war mehr, als sie ertragen konnte. Sie wollte ihre Kreativität und ihre Freiheit zurück!

Talaash na kro kisi ki, Ke wo tumhaari baatein sune, Khud ko aisa banao, Shayd tumse milkar kisi ke dil ka Bojh halka ho jaye.... Talaash na kro kisi ki, Ke wo tumhaare aansoo poche, Khud ko aisa banao, Shayd tumse milkar koi ghut ghut kar marne se bach jaaye.... Talaash na kro kisi ki, Ke wo tumhe har duaa me yaad kre, Khud ko aisa banao, Shayd tumse milkar kisi ki duaa Mukammal ho jaye.... Talaash na kro kisi ki, Ke wo tumhaare saath har pal Khada rhe, Khud ko aisa banao, Shayd tumse milkar kisi ki Haari hui zindagi me fir ek Ummeed bhar jaaye.... Talaash na kro kisi Achhe insaan ki, Khud ko aisa banao, Shayd tumse milkar, Kisi ki talaash poori ho jaye...... Continued *- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -* Aamir Sarfraz

Why is it", Jonathan puzzled, "that the hardest thing in the world is to convince a bird that he is free, and that he can prove it for himself if he'd just spend a little time practicing? Why should that be so hard?

Φτωχέ μου Φλετς. Μην πιστεύεις αυτά που σου λένε τα μάτια σου. Ό,τι κι αν σου δείξουν θα είναι περιορισμός. Κοίταζε με την κατανόηση σου. Βρες αυτά που ήδη γνωρίζεις και θα δεις τον τρόπο να πετάς".

Where did Judith’s most ground-breaking intuitions come from? Did they come from the realm of logic and rationality? Or from a world beyond it, the very same that had inspired Bach to compose his fugues, and the Impressionists to capture life in all of its fleeting nature?

Todos nós a caminho das opções deste minuto, desta noite, deste tempo de vida.

Não faz sentido desejarmos ter tido um passado que não podemos alterar. Por que é que não havemos de desejar coisas que ainda podemos ter?

Remember, inspiration unused is merely entertainment. To get new results, you need to take new actions.

Jazz is a strange music. Jazz is where you find it. You dig all day in the mine, handling those big lumpy dead rocks; that’s the popular music, the dead stuff. And then all of a sudden you come on a bright gleaming streak embedded in the dead rock; it’s alive, it’s gold. That’s how you find jazz. So many people have never heard jazz, because they’ve found nothing but the slag, the dead ore in which it’s cased. They hear the raw material, the nondescript popular song; they may never be lucky enough to be present when inspired musicians strike away the lumpy death and bring out the life. The trumpet states a theme; it isn’t a hell of a good theme and in the song it means little or nothing. He strips it down to its bare chords, throws its thin line of melody out there for a start. The clarinet invents a counter-melody for himself, an invention as carefully wrought, as musicianly, as anything Bach ever wrote down. And then the trombone sings; there is a complete perfection, coming close to the unbearable, in the addition of that third voice to the polyphony of true jazz. Out of nothing something of beauty has been created; you have heard jazz, and you are lucky. You are even more lucky if you have created jazz, if you can sit with the gut-searing vibrations of a trombone mouthpiece kicking back against your face and feel the music down into your feet.

—¿Desde cuándo la seguridad ha sido tu ambición, Dickie? Huir de lo seguro: esa es la única manera de lograr que tu última palabra sea «¡Sí!»

You are never given a wish without the power to make it come true... You may have to work for it however.

Johann Sebastian Bach once walked two hundred miles to hear a master play the organ.

For a whole fortnight my mind and my fingers have been working around me like two lost souls. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Byron, Hugo, Lamertine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them, meditate on them, devour them with fury; besides this, I practise four to five hours a day of exercises (thirds, sixths, octaves, tremolos, repetition of notes, cadenzas, etc.). Ah! provided I don't go mad you will find me an artist!

Richard Bach, the author of Illusions and Jonathan Livingston Seagull, who said, “You are never given a wish without the power to make it come true.” The positive energy formula was inspired by the formula E + R = 0, which Jack Canfield, author of The Success Principles, shared with me.