Professor Quotes

If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities.

What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss

If you have the guts to follow the risk...if one follows what I call one's "bliss" - the thing that really gets you deep in the gut and that you feel is your life - doors will open up...if you follow your bliss, you'll have your bliss, whether you have money or not.

Happiness and love are just a choice away.

Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.

I would not want to form a partnership with an architect who has only a little knowledge of building or a broker who has a limited knowledge of the stock market. Still, we form what we hope to be permanent relationships in love with people who have hardly any knowledge of what love is.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Don't over analyze your relationships.

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.

We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.

When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We're not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

In love, each man is his own personal challenge.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.

Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make.

The insecure way is the secure way.

The best we can do is lean towards the light.

We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea.

The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer. . . It's the world of people living inauthentic lives - doing what they are supposed to do.

One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.

Dragons, you know, we have a good deal of biology and zoology about the dragon; we know their habits. The dragon tends to guard things, and he usually has these guarded in a cave... Now dragons don't know what to do either with beautiful girls or gold, but they just hang on. There are people like this. We call them creeps.

The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge - and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

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.

Life, in both its knowing and its doing, has become today a "free fall," so to say, into the next minute, into the future. So that, whereas, formerly, those not wishing to hazard the adventure of an individual life could rest within the pale of a comfortably guaranteed social order, today all the walls have burst. It is not left to us to chooseto hazard the adventure of an unprecedented life: adventure is upon us, like a tidal wave.

Love is exactly as strong as life.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

There is nothing quite so satisfying, and so healing, as a good cry.

Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

You have choice. You can select joy over despair. You can select happiness over tears. You can select action over apathy. You can select growth over stagnation. You can select you. And you can select life. And it's time that people tell you you're not at the mercy of forces greater than yourself. You are, indeed, the greatest force for you.

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes and not having all the answers, so long as we are willing to admit this and strive for personal betterment. Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out that they don't.

The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel there is something missing in our lives.

I don't know about you, but I don't feel that it's my vehicle that is essential. I don't know about you, but I don't feel that it's my education that is essential. I don't think what is essential about me is my house or my car or my clothes. What is essential about me? Well, I think what is essential is that I live and embrace life right now, wherever I am. I grab it in my arms! Don't spend time crying about yesterday-yesterday is over with! I forgive my past. I forgive the people who've hurt me. I don't want to spend the rest of my life blaming and pointing a finger.

If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

The dreamer and his dream are the same...the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated.

Love is not a thing, it is not lost when given. You can offer your love completely to hundreds of people and still retain the same love you had originally.

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.

I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.

We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.

You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.

Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.

Listening is love in action.

...suddenly you hit on something that the student really responds to, you can see the eyes open and the complexion change. The life possibility has opened there. All you can say to yourself is, "I hope this child hangs on to that."

Successful marriage is leading innovative lives together, being open, non-programmed. It’s a free fall: how you handle each new thing as it comes along. As a drop of oil on the sea, you must float, using intellect and compassion to ride the waves.

You have to learn to recognize your own depth.

I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.