WE ARE ALL ONE. ONLY EGOS, BELIEFS AND FEARS SEPARATE US.
NIKOLS TESLA
IMAGINATION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN KNOWLEDGE. KNOWLEDGE IS LIMITED. IMAGINATION ENCIRCLES THE WORLD.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
I MUST BE A MERMAID. I HAVE NO FEAR OF DEPTHS AND A GREAT FEAR OF SHALLOW LIVING. ANAIS NIN
MAN DOES NOT LIVE BY MURDER ALONE. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and occasionally a hearty meal. Hitchcock
KEEP AWAY FROM PEOPLE who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. MARK TWAIN
CARL ROGERS idea of empathy means entering the perceived world of another person, listening with sensitivity and showing no fear or judgment toward what they express. The goal is to understand their perspective on a deep level. wikipedia
OUR PRIME PURPOSE in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them at least don’t hurt them. DALAI LAMA
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY 1821-1881. “Crime and Punishment”.
THE GREATEST HAPPINESS IS TO KNOW THE SOURCE OF UNHAPPINESS.
PAIN AND SUFFERING are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
THE MYSTERY of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
HEMINGWAY ON DOSTOEVSKY: SO TRUE THAT THEY CHANGED YOU AS YOU READ THEM.
DOSTOEVSKY WAS TOO SMART OF A PERSON TO BE TRULY HAPPY.
TO LOVE SOMEONE means to see them as God intended them. To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise. Love is a skill, agrees the great genius, because it can be developed. Moreover it develops with suffering. It takes you time and suffering to learn the skills of love. wikipedia
LEO TOLSTOY SAID WHEN DOSTOEVSKY DIED: I never saw the man and never had any direct relations with him and suddenly when he died I realized that he was the very closest, dearest and most necessary man for me.
PEOPLE would rather be free in an imperfect world than unfree in a perfect one.
IT IS BETTER to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
THE DARKER THE NIGHT, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief the closer is God!
NOTHING in this world is harder than shaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
IF YOU WANT TO OVERCOME THE WHOLE WORLD, OVERCOME YOURSELF.
I GAVE UP CARING about anything and all the problems disappeared.
BUT HOW COULD YOU LIVE AND HAVE NO STORY TO TELL?
LOVE THE ANIMALS, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
HE WHO MASTERS THE GREY EVERYDAY IS A HERO.
FOR BROAD UNDERSTANDING and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering.
ANYONE who can appease a man’s conscience can take his freedom away from him.
COMPASSION IS THE CHIEF LAW OF HUMAN EXISTENCE.
IT is not the brains that matter most but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities & progressive ideas.
WHAT IS HELL? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
THE MOST OFFENSIVE is not their lying — one can always forgive lying — lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth — what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.
DESTROY my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better and I will follow you.
A HUNDRED SUSPICIONS DON’T MAKE A PROOF.
YOU WILL BURN and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
THE MORE INCOMPETENT ONE FEELS — THE MORE EAGER HE IS TO FIGHT.
AT FIRST ART IMITATES LIFE. Then life will imitate art. Then life will find its very existence from the arts.
KURT VONNEGUT 1922-2007 “Slaughter House Five””Cat’s Cradle”.
WHERE do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that lof Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him. It was music. I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization.
BIG, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.
ONLY NUT CASES WANT TO BE PRESIDENT. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.
PRACTICE ANY ART, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.
YOU MEET SAINTS EVERYWHERE. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.
THE WORLD IS FULL of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.
LAUGHING IS GOOD EXERCISE. IT’S LIKE JOGGING ON THE INSIDE.
WE are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
WE ARE HERE ON EARTH TO FART AROUND. DON’T LET ANYBODY TELL YOU ANY DIFFERENT.
MUCH OF THE CONVERSATION in the country consisted of lines from television shows both past and present.
DOGS AND CATS ARE SMARTER THAN WE ARE.
I BELIEVE that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our mind and this as well. this to me is a miracle.