“When we let the energy of our existence flow freely, without being obstructed by fear, happiness finds its way into our daily lives.”
“He went to India to find himself last year, but evidently he wasn t there, and he came back empty-handed.”
“The most important precept is to be aware of WHO WE ARE! “Who we are,” he said, underlining each word as he said it. “Who we are! Us! Right? What kind of people are we? What kind of person are you? Isn’t that the most important thing of all? Isn’t that the kind of question we should be asking ourselves all the time? “What kind of person am I? Learning who you are is what your are here to do.”
“I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, What s wrong? Nothing. Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile. Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?”
“Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself.”
“We can t control on how each day will fall, but we can control how we fall into each day. Learn to make adjustments to match the circumstances.”
“Being impeccable is not going against yourself. When you are impeccable, you take responsibility for your actions but you do not judge or blame yourself.”
“Don t look shy if you wear rag and people gag, many are in the grave wearing skeleton, and you should even be happier for wearing a skin without clothes.”
“Life is a river, a wise friend told me. It s flowing. You re never at the same place twice.”
“Comme tout le monde, je n ai à mon service que trois moyens d évaluer l existence humaine: l étude de soi, la plus difficile et la plus dangereuse, mais aussi la plus féconde des méthodes; l observation des hommes, qui s arrangent le plus souvent pour nous cacher leurs secrets ou pour nous faire croire qu ils en ont; les livres, avec les erreurs particulières de perspective qui naissent entre leurs lignes.”
“And I Said To My Soul, Be Loud Madden me back to an afternoon I carry in me not like a wound but like a will against a wound Give me again enough man to be the child choosing my own annihilations To make of this severed limb a wand to conjure a weapon to shatter dark matter of the dirt daubers nests galaxies of glass Whacking glints bash-dancing on the cellar s fire I am the sound the sun would make if the sun could make a sound and the gasp of rot stabbed from the compost s lumpen living death is me O my life my war in a jar I shake you and shake you and may the best ant win For I am come a whirlwind of wasted things and I will ride this tantrum back to God until my fixed self, my fluorescent self my grief–nibbling, unbewildered, wall–to–wall self withers in me like a salted slug”
“Your relationship to yourself is and always will be directly reflected in all your relationships with others.”
“When you discover your own self, you will see that same infinite potential in your lover’s eyes.”
“It is not until you learn to look at yourself, through the truth of who you are, that you can look at someone else.”
“It is only because we seek love as if it lives outside of us that we miss it, again and again.”
“La mejor manera de conocerse no es a través de la contemplación, sino a través de la acción. Directa y simple, diáfana, la acción te pone en contacto con tu interior en el presente y sin necesidad de tanto análisis.”
“Aren t we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?”