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Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
What we think, we become.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination?
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.
He who sling mud, lose ground.
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.
Man who eat many prunes get good run for money.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
So many books, so little time.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.
If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
Insanity in individuals is something rare — but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate
And though I oft have passed them by
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.
Oft in lies truth is hidden.
Bagginses? What is a Bagginses, precious?
Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
You have nice manners for a thief and a liar,” said the dragon.
Short cuts make for long delays.
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Not all those who wander are lost.
Oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Time is an illusion.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
People need religion. It’s a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
I thought of that while riding my bicycle.
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren’t these the same questions as last year’s [physics] final exam?
Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. “Pooh?” he whispered.
“Yes, Piglet?”
“Nothing,” said Piglet, taking Pooh’s hand. “I just wanted to be sure of you.
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.
We all shine on…like the moon and the stars and the sun…we all shine on…come on and on and on…
Time wounds all heels.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
I think, therefore I’ll think.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.
If I don’t have red, I use blue.
A person’s a person, no matter how small.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
“Tut, tut, child!” said the Duchess. “Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.”
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
Things do not change; we change.
there’s nothing you can do that can’t be done…..
It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Excuse me while I kiss the sky.
Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.
“Meow” means “woof” in cat.
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
Religion is like a pair of shoes…..Find one that fits for you, but don’t make me wear your shoes.
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward.
How is it possible to have a civil war?
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fires, what do freedom fighters fight?
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.
Everyone smiles in the same language.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Don’t give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.
Always do whatever’s next.
“No comment” is a comment.
The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.
Is there another word for synonym?
If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
Make love, not war.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
That’s the thing about magic; you’ve got to know it’s still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.
Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated … Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.
hark, now hear the sailors cry,
smell the sea, and feel the sky
let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic…
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
It’s all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.
We must be careful what we imagine, fear, or hope for. The echoes of our thought live on in eternity.
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!
God has no religion.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
My arms are too short to box with God.
If God dwells inside us like some people say, I sure hope he likes enchiladas, because that’s what he’s getting.
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind? And when the Earth has claimed our limbs, Then we shall truly dance.
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to these teachers.
Joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.
We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.
But even when the moon looks like it’s waning…it’s actually never changing shape. Don’t ever forget that.
Here’s looking at you, kid.
The baby bat
Screamed out in fright,
‘Turn on the dark,
I’m afraid of the light.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Who, being loved, is poor?
Everything in moderation, including moderation.
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
Only the shallow know themselves.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
Well, art is art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh… now you tell me what you know.
Nature is a haunted house–but Art–is a house that tries to be haunted.
Forever is composed of nows.
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
One need not be a chamber to be haunted.
The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.
Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
The Holy Land is everywhere.
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which… is within the souls of men.
All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe, It is everywhere.
While I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw;
For I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being….And I saw that it was holy
Know the Power that is Peace.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Be Impeccable With Your Word..
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
Don’t Make Assumptions..
Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
Always Do Your Best..
Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
Your life is your spiritual path.
Be — don’t try to become.
Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love – now you are love.
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
It’s not a question of learning much. On the contrary. It’s a question of UNLEARNING much.
Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.
Now man must learn to live without ideologies religious, political or otherwise. When the mind is not tethered to any ideology, it is free to move to new understandings. And in that freedom flowers all that is good and all that is beautiful.
The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth.
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life, we are merely strands in it. Whatever we do to the web we do to ourselves.
Your religion was written upon tablets of stone by the iron finger of your God so that you could not forget. The Red Man could never comprehend or remember it. Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors — the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people.
At night when the streets of your cities and villages are silent and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled them and still love this beautiful land. The White Man will never be alone.
Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion, several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat, if his theology isn’t straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother’s path to happiness and heaven.
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it’s the cyanide.
All natural institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Mythology is what we call someone else’s religion.
Religion disapproves of original thought the way Dracula does sunlight.
Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I’m concerned–I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination.
No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter… than you and I; and all religion … is simply evolved out of chicanery, fear, greed, imagination and poetry.
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
About the gods I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist or what they are to look at. Many things prevent my knowing. Among others, the fact that they are never seen.
It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of Religion, that we shall discover Truth, Reason, and Morality.
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.
It is said that men may not be the dreams of the Gods, but rather that the Gods are the dreams of men.
The good part of Christmas is not always Christian — it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural.
Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it’s not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
Beware the man of one book.
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
All religions are true but none are literal.
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.
The fates lead him who will; him who won’t they drag.
Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted.
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe to match your nature with Nature.
The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.
We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.
Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.
I don’t have to have faith, I have experience.
I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman or child.
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us…
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper patterns at the right moment.
When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . .
How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually.
The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people’s religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology.
How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind’s prudent folly? That is the hero’s ultimate difficult task.
Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.
How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man…. Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachments to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.
Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our tradition God is a male. This male and female differentiation is made, however, within the field of time and space, the field of duality. If God is beyond duality, you cannot say that God is a “He.” You cannot say God is a “She.” You cannot say God is an “It.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.
Love is a friendship set to music.
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens.
And if there was no Fall, what then of the need for Redemption? What god was offended and by whom? Some especially touchy cave bear whose skull had been improperly enshrined?
It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is.
[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes.
The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.
..enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is then experienced as a present fact…
Just because I’m on a different path doesn’t mean I’m lost.
Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.
“if you have time to breathe you have time to meditate.”
You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down.
Although its light is wide and great, the Moon is
reflected in a puddle one inch wide. The whole Moon
and the entire sky is reflected in one dew drop on the grass.
In everything natural there is something marvelous.
Vocatus atque non vocatus deus aderit. – Called or not called, the god will be there.
A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.
The Goddess is Alive. Magic is afoot.
This planet is our home.
Our life and hers are interdependent.
When we let go of believing we are superior, we open ourselves to the experience of living in the community of Nature.
Religion is about creation, and for that reason religion should be about the earth.
No matter how important everything else is to magical success, belief is the most crucial.
Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist.
The entire universe is but one vast symbol of God.
Nature has her proper interest; and he will know
what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing
has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
Even a small star shines in the darkness.
The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
If you look around and think the world is missing something, it is probably the gift you were supposed to be bringing.
We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
Recognize that the other person is you.
Avoid arguments with a fool, it may be difficult to tell you two apart.
If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.