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Communicating with people was found to be like suffering judgment. In fact, it was almost impossible for me to dwell upon earthly matters, and equally impossible for me to bring the mind down to mundane thoughts and general conversations.
Alice Coltrane -
When you quiet your mind, you can enter a world of clarity, peace and understanding.
Alice Coltrane
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Look at what trance means. It means to transcend... it means to become transcendental! So if we get a singular transcendental path of light, that could lead to such great dimensions of consciousness, of revelation, of spirituality, of spiritual power.
Alice Coltrane -
John not only taught me to explore, but to play thoroughly and completely.
Alice Coltrane -
I believe that meditation is the highest spiritual practice, the pathway to God.
Alice Coltrane -
You have got to stress the freedom of music to really branch out and be universal.
Alice Coltrane -
The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within.
Alice Coltrane -
Just as it is fire's nature to burn, it is meditation's nature to heal, to bring peace and uplift you beyond your worldly environment and transport you to a higher plane.
Alice Coltrane
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Maybe other musicians are interested in different things, maybe they have greater monetary concerns. I hear people who have not changed, who haven't elevated anything, who are the same as they were back in the '50s and '60s.
Alice Coltrane -
I came through the bebop era, and to me that was enough.
Alice Coltrane