Quips
If you want to shrink something,
You must first allow it to expand.
If you want to get rid of something,
You must first allow it to flourish.
If you want to take something,
You must first allow it to be given.
This is called the subtle perception
Of the way things are.
~Tao Te Ching
"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."
Leo Tolstoy
"The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun."
John Desmond Bernal
"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness."
Joseph Campbell
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is: Infinite.
William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.”
George Armstrong Custer
“A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder… if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.”
General George S. Patton
“If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking.”
General George S. Patton
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.”
General George S. Patton
“If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.”
Julius Caesar
“What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.”
Julius Caesar
"In Spain they say, one is not truly living unless one is dying. Only in dying again and again, do we truly inhabit the Earth."
Michael Meade
"Mythic imagination is a primordial resource of the human heart that combines heart-felt intelligence with a reverence for life in its myriad forms. When times become tragic and dark with uncertainty, what is missing is the touch of eternity and a mythic sense of being woven within the ongoing story of the world." Michael Meade
"A culture that rejects the spirit of its youth will lack spirit and imagination when faced with life's inevitable challenges. " Michael Meade
"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."
C. S. Lewis
"The best [man] is like water.
Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.
It dwells in [lowly] places that all disdain.
This is why it is so near to Tao."
Lao-tzu
"When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats."
Claude Swanson
"The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore. "
W. Somerset Maugham
"You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you."
Heraclitus
“Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else’s aesthetics. I think you’re born an artist or not. I couldn’t have learned it. And I hope I never do because knowing more only encourages your limitations.”
Robert Rauschenberg
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
Albert Einstein
“I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop. At the time that I am bored or understand — I use those words interchangeably — another appetite has formed. A lot of people try to think up ideas. I’m not one. I’d rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I can’t ignore.”
Robert Rauschenberg
"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
Leonard Cohen
"A girl phoned me the other day and said... Come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. Nobody was home." Rodney Dangerfield
"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
Steven Wright
"Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need." Bill Maher
"I don't care what people think. people are stupid." Charles Barkley
"Contrary to common belief, Hinduism strictly speaking is monotheistic. People worship one God in many forms, and Shiva is one of those forms. "
Swami Tadatmanada
"Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits."
Anthony Bourdain
"Cervantes describes Quixote's growing obsession with knight-errantry, saying, "he so immersed himself in those romances that he spent whole days and nights over his books; and thus with little sleeping and much reading his brains dried up to such a degree that he lost the use of his reason"
Don Quixote
“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.”
George Bernard Shaw
"The waste is less. The elements of mania and depression are diminished. Writing is a serious and sober activity for me no compared to when I was younger."
Norman Mailer
"One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon."
Daniel Day Lewis
"I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down."
Jim Jarmusch
"Some people say we have thirteen albums that all sound the same. That isn't true. We have fourteen albums that all sound the same."
Angus Young , AC/DC
"Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get."
Steve Earle
"It keeps you fit - the alcohol, nasty women, sweat on stage, bad food - it's all very good for you "
late frontman Bon Scott, AC/DC
"I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems."
Loretta Lynn
"If she has a good, strong, reliable father image, which is hard to find these days, that will be her image of men, probably for the rest of her life. She'll look for a husband who embodies those qualities."
Robert Johnson
"A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman."
Robert Johnson
"Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized image that drives our wandering. "
James Hillman
"Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society. "
James Hillman
"Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race." Henry Miller
"To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long."
Marlene Dietrich
"Dying is a wild night and a new road." Emily Dickinson
"Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song."
Buddy Guy
"In the early years when I toured, I was never a tourist. I was always so focused on the show. I just wanted to tear it up and get out of town."
Prince
"Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em."
John Lee Hooker
"In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones. "
John Lee Hooker
"As a surrealist, I quite enjoy having dementia."
George Melly in an interview with Time Out London
"It's not right! ...Mom!"
Paris Hilton, after a judge ordered her to be returned to jail to complete her term for probation violation.
“It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.”
Arthur Danto
"How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all."
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
"Refuse to fall down. If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward heaven like a hungry beggar, ask that it be filled and it will be filled. You may be pushed down. You may be kept from rising. But no one can keep you from lifting your heart toward heaven-only you. It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good came of this is not yet listening.”
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.”
Robert Bly
"The secret of village togetherness and happiness has always been the generosity of the people, but the key to that generosity is inefficiency and decay. Because our village huts were not built to last very long, they had to be regularly renewed. To do this, villagers came together, at least once a year to work on somebody's hut. ... It is the putting back together again, the renewing, that ultimately makes something strong. That is true of our houses, our language, our relationships."
- Martin Prechtel, Tzutujil shaman
"I was in Luna for 738 days because it took 738 days to reach critical mass and you need to reach critical mass to make change."
Julia Butterfly Hill
"When generativity, creativity, generosity, and the capacity to embrace life dry up, the Water of Life has gone underground. At such times, the earth becomes arid, life becomes devoid of meaning, the ground of culture cracks and splits, and gaps develop among peoples and between people and nature. Only water can bring the pieces back together,awaken seeds hidden in the ground, and enliven the parched Tree of Life."
Michael Meade
"Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”
Charles Bukowski
"For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."
Charles Bukowski
“Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.”
Charles Bukowski
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for freedom of thought which they avoid." Soren Kierkegaard
"Speak your mind-even if your voice shakes, well-aimed slingshots can topple giants." Maggie Kuhn, founder of the Grey Panthers
"When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that."
Gertrude Stein
"Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description."
DH Lawrence
"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."
Abraham Lincoln
"There is an awakening happening around the world, born of a hunger and thirst people have to turn this mess we are in around. I tell people, it's not about me. It is about you making yourself a committee of one, of not surrendering our authority to people who don't always have our best interest at heart. My friends hear me say it all the time-in the end,"love wins."
Tavis Smiley
"Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it."
The Talmud
"Make your darkness conscious, or it will direct your life, and you will call it fate." Carl Jung
"I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality. "
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
Carl Jung
"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living."
Anais Nin
"Offer them want they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic stricken"
Jack Kerouac
"no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an angel wandering in hell and the hell the selfsame streets Id roamed in watching, watching for someone just like her and never dreaming the darkness and the mystery and eventuality of our meeting in eternity."
Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bum
"Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?"
Jack Kerouac
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
Jack Kerouac "Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent."
Carl Jung
"Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." Carl Jung
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."Carl Jung
"A Dreamer is one who can only find his way by Midnight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
Oscar Wilde
"Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins." Carlos Santana
"Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.” Sandra Bernhard
"I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those 'artistic' bitches of Paris." frida kahlo
"As for the degenerate artists, I forbid them to force their so-called experiences upon the public. If they do see fields blue, they are deranged, and should go to an asylum. If they only pretend to see them blue, they are criminals, and should go to prison. I will purge the nation of them."
Adolf Hitler
"An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks would be a good idea to give them."
Andy Warhol
"I just want to be normally insane."
Marlon Brando
"The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money."
Marlon Brando
"I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful."
Marilyn Monroe
"The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least i can dream.”
Marilyn Monroe
“...If you can make a girl laugh - you can make her do anything...”
Marilyn Monroe
"Maybe you're not supposed to believe what people say...Maybe it's not even fair to them." Marilyn Monroe playing Roslyn in the "Misfits"
"Indifference is the essence of inhumanity."
George Bernard Shaw
"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description."
DH Lawrence
- (When asked if he was a Hindu) "Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew." Mahatma Gandhi"
- Search for Truth is search for God. Truth is God. God is because Truth is."
- Mahatma Gandhi
"I do not want my house to be walled in on sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any."
Mahatma Gandhi
- "I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen."
- Mahatma Gandhi
- "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. "
- Mahatma Gandhi
"As God's only Son, Jesus came to Earth and gave His life so that we may live. His actions and His words remind us that service to others is central to our lives and that sacrifice and unconditional love must guide us and inspire us to lead lives of compassion, mercy, and justice." - George W Bush
"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844-1900)
"If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. " - Lenny Bruce
"Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment." - Mother Teresa (1910-97 )
"I cannot say that Jesus was uniquely divine. He was as much God as Krishna, or Rama, or Mohammed, or Zoroaster." Mahatma Gandhi, Indian political leader (1869-1948)
"The young poet starting out...should stay the hell out of writing classes and find out what's happening around the corner."
~Charles Bukowski
"One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions."
~Salman Rushdie
"Every woman artist has to kill her own grandmother. She perches on our shoulder whispering, 'Don't embarrass the family'."
~Erica Jong
"Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre." Philip Roth
"It's better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you'll be too afraid to let things keep happening. Psychology destroys the mystery, this kind of magic quality. It can be reduced to certain neuroses or certain things, and since it is now named and defined, it's lost its mystery and the potential for a vast, infinite experience."
David Lynch
"Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone
for the heroes of all time have gone before us. The labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god. And where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves. Where we had thought to travel outward we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we will be with all the world."
Joseph Campbell
"You've done a nice job decorating the White House." Pop star Jessica Simpson, upon being introduced to Interior Secretary Gale Norton while touring the White House
"You bet we might have." Sen. John Kerry, asked if he would have gone to war against Saddam Hussein if he refused to disarm
"Ordinarily, when we speak of withdrawal, we think of
having a substance removed from us. We give up
alcohol, drugs, sugar, fats, caffeine, nicotine - and
we suffer withdrawal. It's useful to view creative
withdrawal a little differently. We ourselves are the
substance we with draw to, not from, as we pull our
over extended and misplaced creative energy back into
our own core."
Julia Cameron
"Thrice happy are those who have seen the Mysteries."
Sophocles (496-408 B.C.E.)
"Step away from the others and I shall tell you the mysteries of the kingdom. It is possible for you to reach it, but you will grieve a great deal."
Jesus Christ to Judas Iscariot from the newly found Gospel of Judas
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
Dr. Seuss
"You will not like me," the Earl of Rochester assures us, staring fiercely out of darkness. "You will not like me now, and you will like me a good deal less as we go on." Johnny Depps character,
John Wilmot in "The Libertine"
"From the moment of commitment, nature conspires to help you."
Bjork from Drawing Restraint 9
"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."
Albert Einstein
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." Albert Einstein
"It was a great mistake my being born a man. I would have been much more successful as a sea-gull or a fish. As it is, I will always ge a stranger who never feels at whome, who does not really want is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must always be a little in love with death."
- Edmund, from Eugene O'Neill Play, " Long Day's Journey Into Night."
"And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of." William Shakespeare
"If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?"
William Shakespeare
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here." William Shakespeare
"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."
William Shakespeare
"Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance."
William Shakespeare
"Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore, a warrior must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if he feels that he should not follow it, he must not stay with it under any conditions. His decision to keep on that path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. He must look at every path closely and deliberately. There is a question that a warrior has to ask, mandatorily: "Does this path have a heart?”
Carlos Castaneda
"At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies."
PG Wodehouse
"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man."
Bertrand Russell
"I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments."
Jim Morrison
"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes."
Said during a radio microphone test, 1984
Ronald Reagan
"I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting."
Ronald Reagan
"I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me."
Dave Barry
"We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."
Pablo Picasso
"…the very word grow is a word appropriate to children. After a certain age you do not grow. You don’t grow teeth, you don’t grow muscles. If you start growing after that age it’s cancer…becoming more and more oneself – the actual experience of it is a shrinking, in that very often it’s a dehydration, a loss of inflations, a loss of illusions…Shedding pseudoskins, crusted stuff that you’ve accumulated. Shedding dead wood. That’s one of the big sheddings. Things that don’t work anymore, that is that don’t keep you alive. Sets of ideas that you’ve had too long….Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something…"
James Hillman
"I didn't mean to be a role model. I just speak my truth. I guess speaking from your heart really creates a huge impact, and if I can encourage people to do that, then I would love to be a role model. If I could encourage people to use their voices loudly, then that's my reward."
Margaret Cho
"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive."
Mel Brooks
“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.”
Howard Aiken
"The best things cannot be told; the second best things are misunderstood; and the third best are everyday conversation."
Heinrich Zimmer
"A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent."
Johann W. Goethe
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
Henry Ford
"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
Mohandes Gandhi
"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken."
Albert Camus
"People say what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive."
Joseph Campbell
"Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent. Leave that to me." Eminem
"I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist, or I'd draw a ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect spiderman."
Jean Michel Basquiat
"I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can."
Andy Warhol
"It's so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen -- that's the most exalting."
Anouk Aimee
"Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties. Every Warrior of the Light has said 'yes' when he wanted to say "no"
Every Warrior of the Light has hurt someone he loved.
That is why he is a Warrior of the Light, because he has been through all this and yet has never lost hope of being better than he is."
Paulo Coelho
“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that our aim is too low and we reach it.”
Unknown
“The chief enemy of creativity is common sense.”
Pablo Picasso
“A warrior chooses a path with heart, any path with heart, and follows it; and then he rejoices and laughs. He knows because he sees that his life will be over altogether too soon. He sees that nothing is more important than anything else.”
Carlos Castaneda
“All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. However, a path without a heart is never enjoyable. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy—it does not make a warrior work at liking it; it makes for a joyful journey; as long as a man follows it, he is one with it.”
Carlos Castaneda
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is "thank you," it will be enough.”
Meister Eckhart
“If you want to feel connected to your own purpose, know this for certain: Your purpose will only be found in service to others, and in being connected to the something far greater than your mind/body/ego.”
Wayne Dyer
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy; And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.”
Kahlil Gibran
“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”
Dalai Lama
“Choose to be in close proximity to people who are empowering, who appeal to your sense of connection to intention, who see the greatness in you, who feel connected to God, who live a life that gives evidence that Spirit has found celebration through them.” Wayne Dyer
“A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.”
Anthony De Mello 20th Century Jesuit Preist
“Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfil a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labor is to be intimate with life’s inmost secret.”
Kahlil Gibran
"I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? … The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew.”
Dan Millman
“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
Winston Churchill
"If his spirit is distorted he should simply fix it—purge it, make it perfect—because there is no other task in our entire lives which is more worthwhile…To seek the perfection of the warrior’s spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.”
Carlos Castaneda
"Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs,
a cosmos.
Disorderly fleshy and sensual...
eating, drinking and breeding.
No sentimentalist... no stander above men and women
or apart from them... no more modest than immodest.
Whoever degrades another degrades me.
And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
And whatever I do or say I also return. Through me the afflatus surging and surging.
Through me current and index."
Walt Whitman excerpt from "Song of Myself"
"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then. I contradict myself.
I am large. I contain multitudes." Walt Whitman
“Brother stand the pain; Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose. A particular glows with the universal.” Rumi
“A bit of advice given to a young Native American at the time of his initiation: "As you go the way of life, you will see a great chasm. Jump. It’s not as wide as you think." Joseph Campbell
"Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery. I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness."
Jean Dubuffet
“When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.” Rumi
“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
Carlos Castaneda
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall...”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Shedding one's skin. The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes. So do the spirits who are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be spirit.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” Marcus Aurelius
"A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit."
Carlos Castaneda
His disciples said to him, "When will the kingdom come?"
"It will not come by watching for it. It will not be said, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Rather, the Father's kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and people don't see it."
Jesus from the Gospel of Thomas
Jesus said, "Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all. [And after they have reigned they will rest.]"
Jesus from the Gospel of Thomas
"By dayworld and daylight, I do not mean the daily world. I mean rather the literal view of any world where things seem as they appear, where we have not seen through into their darkness, their deadly nightshade. It is this dayworld style of thinking - literal realities, natural comparisons, contrary opposites, processional steps - that must be set aside in order to pursue the dream into its home territory. There thinking moves in images, resemblances, correspondences. To go in this direction, we must sever the link with the day world, foregoing all ideas that originate there - translation, reclamation, compensation. We must go over the bridge and let it fall behind us, and if it will not fall, then let it burn." James Hillman
"If you ask me what I have come to do in this world, I who am an artist, I will reply: I am here to live my life out loud."
- Emile Zola
"The Dread and resistance which every natural human being experiences when it comes to delving too deeply into himself is, at bottom, the fear of the journey to Hades."
C.G. Jung
"You Can't Really know the soul unless you have some experience of the other world; otherwise you will confuse that soul with the lower self."
Iraj Anvar
"A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake." George Gurdjieff
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
Joseph Campbell
"I
don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking for the experience of being
alive."
Joseph Campbell
"When
you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you
shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that
is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in
your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are
weeping for that which has been your delight."
Kahlil Gibran
"For
me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means
lack of imagination, lack of creativity."
Jean Dubuffet
“Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior’s indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.”
Carlos Castaneda
"I'm
basically the idea person. I'm not physically involved in the production.
I don't have
the necessary abilities, so I go to the top people."
Jeff Koons
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."
Andy Warhol
"The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I
paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration."
Frida Kahlo
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