“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?”
“Three of the ten principles governing the City of Joy are (a) tell the truth, (b) stop waiting to be rescued, and (c) give away what you want the most.”
“you re Worth More Than Gold”
“Those who wish to sit, shut their eyes, and meditate to know if the world s true or lies, may do so. It s their choice. But I meanwhile with hungry eyes that can t be satisfied shall take a look at the world in broad daylight.”
“If we observe ourselves truthfully and non-judgmentally, seeing the mechanisms of our personality in action, we can wake up, and our lives can be a miraculous unfolding of beauty and joy.”
“Sooner or later our souls find their centre of gravity in a hot, salt-tasting kiss and a trembling touch. Trembling is a good sign: it means you re open to a world that knows you re coming.”
“The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.”
“What is freedom? It consists in two things: to know each his own limitations and accept them – that is the same thing as to know oneself, and accept oneself as one is, without fear, or envy, or distaste; and to recognise and accept the conditions under which one lives, also without fear or envy, or distaste. When you do this, you shall be free.”
“As you notice your whole being, your entirety, your wise inner nature, there are messages there for you. Quietly give permission for your wholeness, your entirety, to share its deepest wisdom.”
“It s like there was a fellow in every man that s done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.”