Dan > Dan's Quotes

“A clear horizon — nothing to worry about on your plate, only things that are creative and not destructive… I can’t bear quarreling, I can’t bear feelings between people — I think hatred is wasted energy, and it’s all non-productive. I’m very sensitive — a sharp word, said by a person, say, who has a temper, if they’re close to me, hurts me for days. I know we’re only human, we do go in for these various emotions, call them negative emotions, but when all these are removed and you can look forward and the road is clear ahead, and now you’re going to create something — I think that’s as happy as I’ll ever want to be.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“A man consists of what I may call an Old World of personal consciousness and, beyond a dividing sea, a series of New Worlds - the not too distant Virginias and Carolinas of the personal sub-subconscious and the vegetative soul; the Far West of the collective unconscious, with its flora of symbols, its tribes of aboriginal archetypes; and, across another, vaster ocean, at the antipodes of everyday consciousness, the world of Visionary Experience.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

“If you go to New South Wales, you will see marsupials hopping about the countryside. And if you go to the antipodes of the self-conscious mind, you will encounter all sorts of creatures at least as odd as kangaroos. You do not invent these creatures any more than you invent marsupials.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

“To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception

“Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell

“In a world where education is predominantly verbal, highly educated people find it all but impossible to pay serious attention to anything but words and notions.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

“Heaven is merely a vantage point from which the divine Ground can be more clearly seen than on the level of ordinary individualized existence.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
― Mother Teresa

“I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.”
― Anais Nin

“roads were made for journeys not destinations”
― Confucius

“He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.”
― Confucius

“The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.”
― Confucius

“An objective heaven or millenium therefore has existence only in fancy, but a subjective one is already in existence.”
― Swami Vivekananda

“And here is the test of truth: Anything that makes you weak physically, intelectually, and spiritually, reject as poison; there is no life in it, it cannot be true.”
― Swami Vivekananda

“The will is stronger than anything else. Everything must go down before the will, for that comes from God: a pure and strong will is omnipotent.”
― Swami Vivekananda

“The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness.
... it is true that fear is the sure cause of degradation and sin. It is fear that brings misery, fear that brings death, fear that breeds evil. And what causes fear? - Ignorance of our own nature.”
― Swami Vivekananda

“What you do is to teach a hundred what I taught you, and inspire each of them to teach a hundred. That's how it's always done.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael

“...you never really know how to handle a problem until you actually have it.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael

“We are human beings first and last. Our religion is faith in Humanity - and there can be no religion greater than that.”
― Satish Kumar, No Destination: An Autobiography

“Fraco mortal, deixa de lutar contra o que é preciso adorar.”
― Voltaire, Zadig

“(...) mas não há acaso; tudo é provação ou punição, recompensa ou providência.”
― Voltaire, Zadig