WOMEN GROW RADICAL WITH AGE. One day an army of women may quietly take over the earth. GLORIA STEINEM
THE LONGER I LIVE, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in those moments when life and shame and sorrow occlude our own light from our view, but there is still a clear-eyed loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, we are that person for another. JAMES BALDWIN
WHAT WE NOW WANT is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egotism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife.
PEACE can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment. NICOLA TESLA
WOODY GUTHRIE. 1912-1967 “This Land is your Land”
THE BEST WAY to get to know any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music.
ANY FOOL can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.
I WOULD LIKE TO SEE every single soldier on every side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and sit down on the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I ain’t gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks want to fight. Give them the guns.
IT’S a folk singer’s job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people.
IF WE FIX IT so’s you can’t make money on war, we’ll all forget what we’re killing folks for.
LIFE has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don’t change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
THE NOTE OF HOPE is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping
machine.
LOVE IS THE ONLY MEDICINE I BELIEVE IN.
LIFE’S PRETTY TOUGH . . . you’re lucky if you live through it.
A SONG ain’t nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.
YOU CAN’T WRITE A GOOD SONG about a whorehouse unless you’ve been in one.
THE WORDS ARE the important thing. Don’t worry about tunes. Take a tune, sing high when they sing low, sing fast when they sing slow, and you’ve got a new tune.
IF YOU WANT TO LEARN SOMETHING, JUST STEAL IT.
I HAVE DECIDED long ago that my songs and ballads would not get the hugs and kisses of the capitalistic experts.
PEMA CHODRON 1936—-NUN–“When Things Fall Apart”
BE KINDER TO YOURSELF. AND THEN LET YOUR KINDNESS FLOOD THE WORLD.
NOTHING ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
YOU ARE THE SKY. EVERYTHING ELSE — IS JUST THE WEATHER.
IN MEDITATION, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest.
LET YOUR CURIOSITY BE GREATER THAN YOUR FEAR.
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.
IT ISN’T WHAT HAPPENS to us that causes us to suffer; it’s what we say to ourselves about what happens.
DEEP DOWN in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.
ONE OF THE DEEPEST HABITUAL PATTERNS that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
FEEL THE FEELINGS AND DROP THE STORY.
OBSTACLES are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
WE WORK ON OURSELVES in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
INGMAR BERGMAN 1918-2007 “The Seventh Seal” “Persona”
ONLY SOMEONE WHO IS WELL PREPARED HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVISE.
I AM LIVING permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.
I MAKE ALL MY DECISIONS ON INTUITION. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
NO FORM OF ART goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.
OLD AGE is like climbing a mountain. you climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.
TO SHOOT A FILM IS TO ORGANIZE AN ENTIRE UNIVERSE.
HERE, IN MY SOLITUDE, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.
I COULD ALWAYS LIVE IN MY ART BUT NEVER IN MY LIFE.
I HAVE ALWAYS had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot.
I AM VERY MUCH AWARE OF MY OWN DOUBLE SELF . . . The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work — he is in touch with the child.
THERE IS NOT ART FORM that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.
THE DEMONS ARE INNUMERABLE, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror. But I have learned that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage. Lilies often grow out of carcasses’ arseholes.
I FEEL VERY STRONGLY THAT I’M SURROUNDED BY OTHER REALITIES.
THERE’S ALWAYS A TENSION in me between my urge to destroy
and my will to live . . . every morning I wake up with a new wrath, a new suspiciousness, a new desire to live.
GUSTAV KLIMT. 1862-1918 ARTIST
ART IS A LINE AROUND YOUR THOUGHTS.
ALL ART IS EROTIC.
REMEMBER TO LOVE YOURSELF AND HAVE FUN.