200+ Quotes & Sayings By Jay Woodman

Our true nature is one of innocence and freedom to choose how we live. We need to be brave enough not to give that away. Don't give up on your right to, and sense of, TRUTH, Justice, and GRACE. Jay Woodman

ARTThe 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

You know that feeling of invincibility you sometimes get, especially when young and testing yourself - well that could be because actually know deep down that we are indeed eternal. We come into this world to live a life, to experience it, from somewhere else, some other plane, but we are programmed by all around us to deny or forget this - until one day we may remember again. That feeling of blissful reconnection with our source can be invoked through nature, beautiful writing or art or music, any detailed craft or work of discovery or personal dedication, meditation or other mentally balancing practice, or even through religious experience if there is a pure communion (not a pretence of it). But we should not yearn to return too soon, we should accept that we have come here for the duration of each life, and revel in the chance to learn and grow on this splendid planet. We can draw a deep sense of being-ness. peace, and love from this connection, which will sustain us through any trial. Once nurtured, this becomes stronger than any other connection, so of course our relationships here are most joyful when they allow us the personal freedom to spend time developing and celebrating that connection. Our deepest friendships form with those we can share such time and experiences with - discussing, meditating, immersing ourselves in nature, or creating our music, art, written or other works. Our journeys here are voyages of discovery, opening out the wonders within and all around. What better companions could we have than those who are able to fully share in such delights with us?. Jay Woodman

If you want to change something, whether in a relationship, work, or anywhere, identify and focus on the few most important bits, and don't throw in extras to mess it up. Jay Woodman

I entrain myself (when I remember to)by tuning in to higher frequenciesin the ether, in my soul, everywhere I go, always accessible, always helpfulfor obtaining a higher perspectivein a matter of minutes. Jay Woodman

Open spaces sing to my heartof the art of nature and the nature of art. Jay Woodman

Music is for souls & hearts to dance & sing. Art is for expressing your visionary being. Words are tools for exploring & celebrating. Time is a pool to swim & dream & create in. Waste not one jot of what you are given! Use everything you've got to maximise living. Jay Woodman

You are magnificent - a jewel reflecting inwardly and outwardly, the light of the universe. Observe how you respond to beauty everywhere - you bear witness to everything. Be aware that you, yourself, are an inextricable part of the infinite creative intelligence, and be blessed. Jay Woodman

These rocks are too heavy, can't carry them any more, don't know why i ever picked them up before, going to have to put them down where they don't belong, 'cause i can't get them back to where they came from. These rocks belong to no one, except history. Somewhere between the desert and the rolling sea, or maybe up in the mountains blue and tall, I picked them but now i'm going to let them fall. Jay Woodman

Mantra: My swirling mind becomes peaceful, and my body releases all tension. I surrender to the love of the universe, which heals me totally. Jay Woodman

The supposedly intelligent are often too quick to judgewhen really all that's needed is loveand understandingbut try not to judge them in return because they will often judge themselves even more harshlywhich is so sad in a world that's already so full of pain that hugsand forgiveness should be called forevery single day Jay Woodman

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

Innocent and joyful I take your handfor I know you judge not, you simply understand. You are my companionon this voyage of discovery, singing sweet soft musicto the universe inside of me. Jay Woodman

Like money used wisely, awareness comes & we let it go. Like life, it arises infinitely, to tease & to soothe, to flow through us. Jay Woodman

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

I don't mind what you call yourself, so long as your heart is being true to you. Jay Woodman

I constantly yearn to celebrate life & its infinite manifestations, to examine the details of everything including the human heart & mind. Jay Woodman

The role of Cherishing in Bereavement - I think that the key to healthy grieving is to cherish those who have passed on, so that you celebrate their lives and the times you did have together with thankfulness, instead of trying to cling on and wish that things were different. I believe that you should let them go in peace with love, not try to hang on to their spirits, just hold the precious moments gently in your heart. Jay Woodman

Affirmations: "I love & respect my mind, body, spirit." & "I do what best nurtures all parts of myself." & "I thrive on wholeness." Namaste! Jay Woodman

Affirmation: What most fulfils & energizes me - mind, body, spirit - is what manifests in my life. Jay Woodman

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

You can Transform into a Super-Soul! If you align your physical and mental (logical/emotional) self with your core self (or soul being), then you will know your personal path, and find ways to follow it to fulfillment. You can learn how to best nurture your body, plus train your mind as an empowering tool to enhance your overall balance, strength, and unique skills, so that you achieve your goals, as well as optimise your well-being. Jay Woodman

GRACE is a word we can keep in our minds when we walk, dance, swim, talk, sing, do anything at all - to enable us to get in 'the zone' where everything flows more easily - where everything feels lighter, and we are in a peak state. Grace allows us to follow our inner guidance - be true to who we are - and give our gifts lightly to the world. It's one of those magic words! Jay Woodman

The Conditioned Mind / shuts off magical vision and gnosis / gives up freedom, truth, real choices / loses sight of love, trust, and social coherence / loses touch with organic life, gives way to interference // risks personal wellbeing, peace of heart, balance of mind / is tricked into believing we need power, money, lies / and people to lead us by the nose into violence and war / is hypnotised, drugged, poisoned, misinformed. Jay Woodman

Hearts In MeIf I look to the world with hearts in my eyes Then surely I’ll be intrigued and inspired. If I touch the world with hearts in my hands Then surely I’ll learn how to understand. If I listen to the world with hearts in my ears Then surely I’ll truly be able to hear. If I speak with the world with hearts in my mouth Then surely I’ll be kind and gentle enough. If I think of the world with hearts in my mind Then surely I’ll be awake to all life. If I reach for the world with hearts in my palms Then surely its love will flow through my arms . Jay Woodman

Instead of letting our emotions run amok, we can use our minds as tools to build or create realities that serve us better Jay Woodman

World & people only seem unlovable due to toxins & lies they've been fed. Release distortions of mind. Return all to innocence & freedom Jay Woodman

Love yourself enough to take care of your health of mind, body, and soul as a top priority, then you'lll be fit to face anything. Jay Woodman

My power is everywhere propping up illusions, but I'm taking it back by letting go of them & just riding the stallion into wonderland. Let's see what you've got to say about the darkness in the mountains, I wonder if you know you can just turn it all to light. As we ride through the valley can you see the same water flowing that I do, or do dust clouds conceal it and block up your nose & throat? You're so thirsty for the end of the journey but I don't want you to miss the magic on the road. Jay Woodman

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

It's love that makes the world go round - otherwise it would be flat. Jay Woodman

I desire the world - therefore I have it. Jay Woodman

Even heaven and hell arise just as we think they should be for we are each beings of consciousness creating our own reality. Jay Woodman

To lose a problem, do not oppose, let go of any need to control, perhaps it's all an illusion we project, more like a game we play than real? Jay Woodman

Let's follow our curiosity & our joy. Jay Woodman

The world is a wide place where we stumble like children learning to walk. The world is a bright mosaic where we learn like children to see, where our little blurry eyes strive greedily to take in as much light and love and colour and detail as they can. The world is a coaxing whisper when the wind lips the trees, when the sea licks the shore, when animals burrow into earth and people look up at the sympathetic stars. The world is an admonishing roar when gales chase rainclouds over the plains and whip up ocean waves, when people crowd into cities or intrude into dazzling jungles. What right have we to carry our desperate mouths up mountains or into deserts? Do we want to taste rock and sand or do we expect to make impossible poems from space and silence? The vastness at least reminds us how tiny we are, and how much we don't yet understand. We are mere babes in the universe, all brothers and sisters in the nursery together. We had better learn to play nicely before we're allowed out... And we want to go out, don't we?. .. Into the distant humming welcoming darkness. Jay Woodman

LOOKINGThe world goes by, and what have I to do with it? I merely observe how the geese stretch their necks towards the orange rim of sky. I watch how light fades and children make their way home, hungry and tired. The bushes outside become ghosts while baths run and kitchen windows steam up with the cooking. This is the smell of our home, where I have a place in the wrinkled hours making beds and hugging boys awake. This is the sound of the house where I feel out lives into words, translate ragged nights and days into something whole, or try to. You may look if you wish... The world goes by, and what have you or I to do with it, except perhaps for looking.. ? . Jay Woodman

We have the greatest power through love that can be known. It overcomes everything with its fierce and steady truth, if you can continue to stand in it. You can call love to you, directly from the original stream of consciousness, anytime you feel weak or fearful, and you will be given strength and courage. You can call love to you, directly from the original stream of consciousness, anytime you feel sad or alone, and you will feel embraced and comforted. Call love to you if you feel vulnerable. Feel its purity come to you from the universe and flow round you like a miraculous mother cradling its innocent child. Breathe love in. Say to yourself as you breathe deeply “I love. I am loved.” Say it over and over as you breathe it into yourself and out to the universe, until you really feel and believe that you ARE LOVE.Feel love pour into your lungs as you breathe. Feel it circulate round your body to fill every organ, every limb, and every cell. Vibrate with its radiance, and share it. Jay Woodman

Green and living jewels drip into my eyes" from the poem "All Green and Living Things" in the book "Terra Affirmative Jay Woodman

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

Ego promenades, flounces, pushes in unwanted places, trips, stands on others, whereas a sense of destiny grounds - you just do what you do Jay Woodman

What destiny is there, but to sense, observe, merge, re-emerge, Empty, yet filled, spreading everywhere, inside, outside, in, Pulsing, fluctuating, breathing as part of one being, Whispering, feeling, reflecting, flowing between hot and cold, Mineral and plant, dark and light, love and fear, new and old. Jay Woodman

Life is an adventure I am enjoying creating. Jay Woodman

I believe in always being open to learning more through exploration of everything available and following one's sense of curiosity, creativity, and playfulness. Jay Woodman

If the spirit of wonder & curiosity stays alive in us, then surely we will always have new questions, and always expand our creativity in response? Jay Woodman

If you are unaware of what's within, you will be shown in the mirror of your near future life experience. Wiser to keep a step ahead. Jay Woodman

Words fly like stones into clouds and accelerate.... Jay Woodman

Hungry for beautiful words, the fox comes rooting around in the hedge, almost too close to the fire. He reads my mind with one glance and is gone. All my poetry is now trotting around the bushes inside him, maybe some day to be partly eaten or left to rot. He understands being alive for as long as he can be, and does not worry about why, or what might happen afterwards. Jay Woodman

Words to intrigue, inspire, examine, question, praise; Words to help us appreciate our world, our selves, our games; Words to dance our true soul fires gracefully free. Jay Woodman

All I can say to people who hate their mothers for giving birth to them is "get the fuck out of your scaredy shells and kiss the world". Jay Woodman

What life means has individual answers for each of us. Jay Woodman

I want to be part of the happiness team - let's create the happiness team - from love, not greed, love of life & our planet, true & free. Jay Woodman

I listen to the silenceand yearn to be more me, swimming in the sea of myself, learning eternally -finding out where the rocks areand smoothing them into sand. Jay Woodman

We attract what we're meant to because we're aware & self-empowered enough to choose most of the time. Other times we have lessons to learn Jay Woodman

Mindfulness & Meditation help focus on the moment while at the same time knowing we cannot capture that moment, we are in a flow of moments we let flow. We can watch moments in detail without being attached to them. Non-attachment to past & future stems from this practice. Worry about past or future is wasted energy, however we can observe the past & learn from it without agonising over it & trust ourselves to handle the future better. We can celebrate the opportunity to grow as we gain understanding from observation & experience. We can watch ourselves & avoid being caught up in over-reactions. "I am loved, right now, in this moment, I love, and am part of love itself. I am aware of myself at every level - the mental slowing gracefully to sense the spiritual within & all around, and the physical being still, or moving. I tune in to the flow of life in my body & the flow of life everywhere. I circulate love with each breath - from without to within & from within to all around. . Jay Woodman

Harmony can be achieved within through meditation, which increases overall well-being and function. Jay Woodman

The light within us dances when we smile. Jay Woodman

NAMING THE EARTH(a poem of light for national poetry day) And the world will be born againin circles of steaming breathand beams of lightas each one of us directsour inner eyeupon its name. Hear the cry of wings, the sigh of leaves and grass, smell the new sweet mist risingas the pathway is cleared at last. Stones stand ready -they have knownsince ages and ages agothat they were not alone. Water carries the planet's energyinto skies and down to earth and bones. The cold parts steadily as we come together, bodies and hearts warm, hands tingling. We are silentbut our eyes are singing. We look, we feel, we know, we trust each other's souls, we have no need to speak. Not now, but later, when the time is right, the name will ringwithin the iron coreof each other's listening -and the very earth's being. Every creature, every plant, will hear it calling, tolling like a bell -a sound we've always feltbut never dared to hopeto hear reverberating -true at last, at every levelof existence. The poets come togetherto open the intimate centre. Believein life and air -breathe the light itself, for these are the energiesand rhythms that we needto see, to touch, to reach, to identify, to say, the NAME.Colours on your skinfuse and dissolve -leave the river cleanfor pure space and timeto enter and flow in. We all become one fluid streamof stillness and motion, of flaring thoughtpulses discoveringweird pools and twists withinwhere darkness hidesfrom the flames in our eyesbut will not snare us. We probe deeper still, journeying towards a unitywhich will be more rawand yet also more formedthan anything writtenor spoken before. Our fragile bodiesfall away -and the trees, and the roots of trees, guide us -lead us awayfrom the faces we rememberseeing each day in the mirror -into an oceanof dreamsseething with warmth, love, where the beginningis real, ripe, evolving. And the world is born againin circles of steaming breathand beams of light. An ache - a signal -a trembling moment -and the time is rightto say the name. We sing as one wholevoice of the universal -all the words, the namesof every tiny thirsting thing, and they ring out togetheras one sound, one energy, one sense, one vibration, one breath. And the world listens, beats, shines, glows -IS -Exists! . Jay Woodman

Prose Poems from my book SPANOBSERVATIONSo, we may not be able to explain the world. Not exactly. But we can accept it, and love it. We can turn our faces to the light and examine the minutest details simply for the sake of it. We can live lives of joy and purpose. We are all part of one whole. Take comfort in this. Almost every one of us is capable of holding a cup to another’s lips without our hands shaking. Jay Woodman

Through the Mud (from the book Blue Bridge)A line of robots, We approach a wall of mud, Some of us carrying flowers. The others laugh Bit when we enter that wall It is the flowers That will make us an ark To carry us on through the darkness, Sailing through With our symbols the only light Until we fly Out over the fields On the other side of midnight And all our wires And bits of metal fall off.- And our souls are bright again, So new and light They shoot up —Up to plant our brilliant flowers Like stars In the face of heaven. Jay Woodman

In the forestlichen writhes and assembles itself into signs to light my path through the deep dark north shadow; and I emerge at last onto a hillside strewn with logogrammatic stones, and scramble away from spruce tops." in the poem "Beyond the Beacon" from Terra Affirmative. Jay Woodman

Have trembled beneath the pressure of a light beam. Jay Woodman

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

From CHAOS?Trust the imagination. Peace is knowing without need for detailed explanation. Joy is openness to possibility. Sing your humming heart free from the heat of all creation. Swim into cool whirling coloured pools. Sleep on rock of consciousness. Jay Woodman

From CHAOS?Trust the imagination - lines and shapes revealed - space and light instead of blackness. Silence being tentative, tender life of universe. Jay Woodman

Having no need to judge, control, react, so forgiveness does not even arise. Jay Woodman

Let's forgive someone for Valentines day, it's a great way to show love, and forgive yourself too for the hurt you held onto. Jay Woodman

If you keep wanting to get back in the nest, you're missing the amazing experience of coming out to play at life for a while. Jay Woodman

Everything is reflected in both - outside (out there) and inside (in here) - marvel at it, experience, learn. The personal is also the universal, and the universal is also the personal. Jay Woodman

What we think affects our life so much that life is for each of us just what we think it is. So the question of what life means has individual answers for each of us. Jay Woodman

Life is a bit like a sweet & toy & art & curiosity shop - all in one - only the best bits are free. If you look at all the things you can cherish it helps to balance everything else. 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

Smile, ask, listen, provide, thank" then "take time out to have fun & renew yourself" but "always dream up more questions". - Julia Woodman Jay Woodman

Time is a pool to swim & dream & create in. Jay Woodman

Needing to express what it’s like here.... / Trying to digest the incoming stream .... / And dream it all over again. Jay Woodman

... 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

Be confident to make your magic. Jay Woodman

Try to forgive by trying to understand how it would feel to be in the other’s shoes. If someone hurts you — ask them - “What hurts you so much that you would do this?” Listen to the answer and try to understand what is valid for them. They may have been fighting for your attention, but no one thinks of themselves as attackers, only defenders! So don’t judge their ways, only set them free by giving them a chance to speak. You may both learn a lot from your kindness and courage in asking for the truth. But even if nothing changes, release it, remember that you both have a right to be who you choose to be. When we make judgements we're inevitably acting on limited knowledge, so ask if you seek to understand, or simply let them be! . Jay Woodman

You have everything inside you, though you sometimes only recognise certain bits relating to the current stage of your path. Jay Woodman

We are alive in all our layers of self and selflessness - individuals becoming one. Jay Woodman

When you realise you are just as ridiculous & just as #special as everyone else, you love them all. Jay Woodman