Codex Illuminatus Quotes

“I do not judge the quality of my work by the feedback obtained from the masses, for if the masses knew how to judge wisely, would not have supported so much madness throughout human history; I judge my work through the many attacks the devil launches on me, by using possessed souls during the process of creation, and the viciousness of such attacks. It is in the most poisonous insults that I find the elixir of my self-worth.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“Hate prevents the mind from clearly observing and objectively analyzing the data that reality presents. Whenever we favor negative thoughts, the dynamics of consciousness take on a self-destructive direction.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“How many planets with life do you think there are? Would you like to live in all of them? Maybe, yes, or maybe, not! For those who don’t believe in alien life or don’t want to believe, or assume that aliens are exaggerated states of being that no human can comprehend, life on earth makes more sense to them. They see the meaning of their life in getting a good salary, a job others can respect, a nice colorful desk with a cheese cake waiting for them on top. And for those who believe, it often becomes a necessity more than a willingness. I.e, they want to escape earth, not realizing that alien life won’t be that different. Consciousness finds itself in both the similarities and the differences.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“How much can you explore, before you forget the need for an answer? How many pleasures can you embrace, before your questions get neglected? Just imagine all the possibilities, because whatsoever you imagine, is most likely a possibility. Our imagination is not detached from reality, even if the reality of earth may not show it. The more you embrace your imagination, the less your questions make sense. Because, just like light and darkness, both, the questions emerging from material experience and the pleasure of imagining infinite possibilities, can’t coexist.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“How much is your life worth? If you have low self-esteem, your life is cheap and everything related to improving it sounds expensive. Even one book sounds expensive to a very poor soul that prefers to spend money on alcohol, cigars and other addictions. It is only when you have self-worth that you have the determination and will to pay any price for your spiritual freedom and persist along any path that will take you there.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“Human beings always analyze reality in linear forms due to how the human mind perceives time and sequences, and learning. But, actually, reality is multi-dimensional, and not possible for the human mind to fully grasp. The human mind is like a very old computer that can't really process so much. On the other hand, it is also a mystery how the spirit is superior to the mind, for it is as if the mind, in itself, was a trap. Whenever you think of yourself as a product of your mind, you have automatically subverted the potential of your own existence.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“Human beings only transform reality with their spiritual power in proportion to what they believe they can change. In this sense, spirituality is always proportional to the capacity to create postulates and make them reality.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“Humanity has always been controlled by two sides and never did its accomplishments been ignored but overseen and manipulated by those in power. The truth, however, is never accepted by the ones who keep on paying the price for the untruths they embrace. In doing so, they keep the most important truths hidden from themselves, for their level of consciousness cannot go beyond their ego — the belief that they have not been massively fooled.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“Humanity seems to be losing the basic elements that make humans human, i.e., empathy, compassion, moral, sense of logic, etc. In this way, anyone who has developed such attributes by moral conduct, religious practice and meditation, has become, by default, superior to the masses. These individuals have also been upgraded by differentiating themselves, for the spiritual world always chooses those who can more easily convey an abstract message transmitted in vibration through the heart.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“I believe that what the vast majority of the masses call life is just fiction. A therapist's work ends up being trying to bring them into nonfiction. Although I feel that many are just replacing a novel by another. Too many people tell me: 'Why do you talk like you know the truth? There is no truth'. It is as if they felt that I'm destroying their inner world by being direct. They feel the need to project a defense mechanism to protect it. Another common phrase is: 'You don't know me better than I know myself'. This one is also interesting. Because it is as if the person was saying: 'You don't know my novel better than I do because I am the author of it.’ Life pretty much follows the same principles — gravity, air, water, fire, weight, hight; all of which is represented in maths, physics, and other sciences. But most people these days consider a personal attack when you make them observe something that may touch their inner world. It's the oversensitivity paradox in which we live today, for people want to feel more alive but are afraid to live at the same time. Allegorically speaking, they need to float like a bubble of steel. And many times they are perfectly fine in discussing others' issues until those issues are projected at them for self-analysis. Quite often, we are not really talking to a human being, but to his alter-ego. There's not much difference between the real self and the alternate version of that self for such person. And how ironic when both the therapist and the patient play the same game from different perspectives. This is why people don't want the truth anymore, but an alternate version of reality where they can merge themselves as if they were merely a chemical solution melting with another. They are too afraid of the truth because they have often been hurt when trying to find it. However, the concept of truth merges with the personality of the individual. And that is why having a personality is now an outdated concept, often falling into the realm of the abstract — Everything is relative, everything is fine, and everyone is everything you can decide for yourself. So why live if life has no meaning? Well, life does have a meaning, but won't be found by running away from it.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“I only need to look at the heart and soul of a human being to know the nature of such individual; I don’t really care about what goes on in the mind, as the mind is usually confused and lost, and without the heart will never find itself. The heart can only find peace when the soul is manifesting itself through it. And the soul has all the keys to the nature of the individual, far much more than what the individual can see when using the mind. And that is why, to the dismay of many, I seem to know them better than they know themselves. I do know them better, because I know their soul, while they only know their mind.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“Identification is only possible when the exterior structure is so neutral that it can be easily assimilated.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“I thought I could make a narcissist repent, accept responsibility and understand the implications of her behavior, and that's how I wasted years of my life driving myself insane with endless explanations that were disregarded as much as any emotions behind them, because, for the narcissist, without empathy but driven by hate, everything that hurts the ego is an insult. And that's when I realized the narcissist was simply gaslighting me into oblivion.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“I saw a little child throwing pillows on the floor and screaming, and soon later picking up those same pillows to listen to a story her mother was reading in a coffee shop. However, after a few minutes, the child started crying again, this time, not throwing any pillows on the floor, but simply demanding to go somewhere else, leading her mother to promptly obey. And that's when I realized, there was nothing wrong with that child, but with the culture. For the adults of this country behave in the same way. They complain when they can't get what they want, and once they do, they manipulate others to get more. It is not a cultural trait as much as it is not an educational issue. It's, pretty much, a problem of mass imbecility. You cannot expect an adult, that never grew up, to educate a child or provide her with a culture in which she can, herself, mature. And that's why in certain countries, there is the illusion that you are dealing with adults and children, when in fact you are only dealing with children. When these children become fed up of crying and demanding, and throwing pillows on the floor, they commit suicide, simply because they are fed up of being irresponsible and unaccountable for their actions. They don't need psychologists, but violence. And the violence they get, in many forms, from neighboring nations wanting to destroy them; for nobody wants to deal with adults behaving like immature children. The infantilization of a nation is only one of the traits contributing to its downfall, but probably one of the most important.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“Hate not the one who has ridiculed you or insulted you, on purpose or by default, for he is a victim of stupidity, blind by his own actions. Such an individual suffers from ignorance in ways that the mockery blinds you to see. But doubt not, that all ignorance manifested in the form of insults and segregation, is paid by the one who charges through you his own karmic token.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“Happiness is not possible without hope; hope is not possible without discipline; discipline demands consistent action; consistency depends on order; order only exists when motivated by faith; an overwhelming faith depends on belief; and, belief can only come from love. In other words, only you can make yourself happy. If you are willing to stand still when your mind is restless, you can begin this journey towards the ultimate understanding of what makes life what it is.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“God does not choose religions. Religions call themselves representatives of the Truth, but this representation is always self-entitled. One must discern entitlement from Truth if he hopes to understand God.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“God blesses us with so many gifts that it is, in a way, ungrateful of us to suffer. We can use our efforts, resilience, persistence, as well our capacity to dream and envision, to apply faith to our journey and reach our goals despite any momentary barriers or difficult outcome we may face. Ultimately, time and freedom are more important than anything else and both can’t be taken from us. When you pray, you take the freedom to yourself and, when you live in hope, you gain time. That time may not be seen in the present but will come as a new future. And every loss reveals the potential for a greater victory. For there is no meaning in suffering for not having receivers to the fruits of our creation. Likewise, we should not suffer when we are receivers of what is created.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“God always opens new doors in the darkest rooms. Those doors are called miracles and the dark rooms are called fears. And you may think that you can push this darkness away with the light of knowledge, but you will never have enough knowledge, if not impelled by the force of faith. Therefore, one can say that knowledge increases confidence in the future, but it is with faith that we can create any multitude of futures, including the ones we considered impossible or did not even consider.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“God always makes you accountable for your mistakes, especially, when they are related to egotistic decisions. Ignorance and sympathy are never excuses in the realm of the spirit.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“From the heart comes the power of the soul, which connects with the spiritual consciousness associated with God.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“For those who consider life a walk of suffering, living with someone happy is simply depressing.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“For the deceived mind, an illusion is always meaningful, until the pain of being wrong proves otherwise. And this may take a lifetime, or never come to pass.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“For many people unable to see the light, only too much darkness can help them experience the need for enlightenment.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“Earthly reality solidifies a set of lines of communication where nothing is truly real but everything is necessary.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“Emotions are very powerful, and our brain is nothing when compared to the heart. The heart has an intelligence of its own. But it is indeed connected to the rest of us, including our mind. So what this means is that our emotions are far more powerful than our reasoning. You know, like when a praying mantis gets his head chopped off by a female after sex; he knows he is going to die, but he still can't help himself and stop it. A large majority of us are like that. We think we are superior to animals, but that only applies to the amount of complexity of our problems. For a large portion of society, self-destruction is inevitable in the process of spiritual self-discovery guided by emotional impulses.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“Even though humanity has confused itself with its own mechanics, the transitory fact remains, that knowledge, in any shape or form, comes from books. And more than 99% of all the books ever produced in human history are now, thanks to the internet, available for free, in the public domain, and whenever a computer and electricity are present. This truth, also extensively contributes to the fact that humans are now, for the first time ever, deliberately choosing to remain ignorant.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“Every stage of an experience demands a sacrifice: The obtaining of external forms of respect demands the sacrifice of self-respect; the gaining of validation and social acceptance demands the sacrifice of personal values; and the obtaining of wealth beyond common standards demands the sacrifice of aesthetics. Along the way, you are battling between the aspirations of your soul, common sense and paradigms you reject. The decisions are made at every second, at every provocation, at every betrayal and disappointment, denial, offer or alluring proposition. What you take and what you do with it is equally important. But the idea that you are in control of your life is truly an illusion. You can only control how you respond to life and within the framework presented by life itself. If you want to either change the rules of the game or the nature of the challenges, you must change the framework, which in this case means sacrificing the previous framework in which you operated and the identity built within such structure. You can’t change reality without changing yourself, or you will replicate the same reality wherever you go. And so, to a great extent, it is as relevant to be aware of what you can or can’t tolerate, who you are and are not, as it is to have the capacity to change the program behind the projections you observe and observe the meaning of such projections. No change is ever allowed to the one who cannot see what is being projected. Such an individual is a victim of his own ignorance. And that is why so many religious scriptures warn against the dangers of arrogance. For it is when you consider yourself above the projections of your environment that you are crushed by them. Such a secret will always be hidden from the masses for as long as it remains profitable to the ones benefiting from the projections such masses experience.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“Everyone has freewill but few know how to use it wisely. And quite often it is not the unknown that people fear, but the known. You may know that to love someone that can’t love back is a risk, and yet, not giving that person the opportunity to hurt you, means avoiding life and running away from yourself. Trust is almost always the only option one has to choose. But being a fool is to remain in a reality that shows itself unworthy to you after accepting it.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“Everything in life has two sides, but the second one is created by yourself, when you allow the thoughts, actions, and decisions of others, which tend to repeat in a cyclic way, to pull you into that vortex of paradigms that belong to their own world and not yours. It is when you feel the need to answer a question, to explain yourself, or even when you react to what others do to you based on how they make you feel, that you lose your real identity. Ideally, those two sides you keep encountering should always be created or expected by you first.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques