When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.
Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
Choose the way of life. Choose the way of love. Choose the way of caring. Choose the way of goodness. It's up to you. It's your choice.
A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
"To be is to do," says the existentialist. "One only becomes real (human) at the point of action."
The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
If you see your path laid out in front of you - Step one, Step two, Step three - you only know one thing . . . it is not your path. Your path is created in the moment of action. If you can see it laid out in front of you, you can be sure it is someone else's path. That is why you see it so clearly.
Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.
You can't imagine the joy I feel when I hear that something I've said or done or written has helped others to regain their sense of dignity, to motivate them to develop their uniquepotential, to encourage them to reach out to others in love.
Seek to know the power that is within you.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.
The person who thinks he has found the ultimate truth is wrong.
When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.
Catch the beauty of the moment!
There is a good deal of excellent research on child's play. It has shown conclusively that through play, with the freedom of action it allows and the stressless environment in which it occurs, children discover, relate to and define themselves and their world. ...It is, therefore, paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play.
We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us
Based on a string of bad breakups, I was forced to examine my choice of partners. Surely, that must have abolished me from any wrongdoing.
The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.
Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't.
Our life has become so economic and practical in its orientation that, as you get older, the claims of the moment upon you are so great, you hardly know where the hell you are, or what it is you intended. You are always doing something that is required of you. Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?
Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.
I will love you if you are stupid, if you slip and fall on your face, if you do the wrong thing, if you make mistakes, if you behave like a human being — I will love you no matter.
I just saw an ad the other day that I couldn't believe. There was this woman-and I think it's degrading to womankind-she was going out of her mind over a new product called "A Thousand Flushes." Here she was in her toilet, saying, "Oh, I love this product!" and, "My life is complete!" Good God-if your joy depends on "A Thousand Flushes," you're sick!
I am a teacher. And I think I am a serious one who happens to be enjoying life.
You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.
I should have said, 'Follow your blisters.'
This loving person is a person who abhors waste - waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.
The most important thing in the world is that you make yourself a loving person, because this is what you will be giving away.
We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your bliss is. Grab it. No one can tell you what it is going to be. You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. And you must have courage. It's the call to adventure, which means there is no security, no rules.
Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.
People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.
There is seemingly so little love shared in this world, it is not surprising that we ask, "Where have all the lovers gone?" Since love is the most vital energy for good that is within our power to utilize, it is puzzling why we so seldom do so. Love is just a useless, abstract idea until we put it into action...unless we are always actively living in love, we are not utilizing the greatest gift we have been given and which we, in turn, have to offer.
Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.
You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.
I've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread.
Love revels in and grows in the moment and the joy of the moment.
To find your own way is to follow your bliss.
We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.
Do what gives you bliss.
I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish. I still listen to instinctual urges. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself. It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work.
Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.
If one wishes to be a lover he must start by saying 'YES' to love.
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.
We have to get children to understand that not only do they have this incredible uniqueness, but they also have something that sometimes we forget about. They are also potentiality. They are much more undiscovered than they are discovered. And there's the wonder of it. It doesn't matter where they are, they're only just beginning and the big magical trip of life is digging it all out and discovering the wonderful you.
The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
