PERCEPTION

This whole world is a phantasmagoria, an amazing illusion.

We notice only what we think noteworthy, and therefore our
visions highly selective.
Memory creates the future as well as the past, you wouldnt
know that you were going to have anything happen tomorrow if
you didnt have something yesterday.
The world is precisely the relationship between the world and its
witnesses, and so if there are no eyes in this world, the sun
doesnt make any light, nor do the stars.
If you dont remember anything you dont know youre there.
There is nothing except the eternal now.
Things and events have only a verbal reality.

ON ART & CREATIVITY

An artist is a person who performs certain things skillfully, but

doesnt really know how he does it. You learn art by methods
that you dont know how you learnt, you cant describe, because
your brain is capable of absorbing all kinds of information that is
much too subtle to be translated into words.
Creative people can stimulate creativity in others, by osmosis.

ON THE UNIVERSE

You and I are as much continuous with the universe as a wave is

continuous with the ocean.
Everything in this universe depends on everything else.
Everything that happens, everything that I have ever done,
everything that anybody else have ever done is part of a

harmonious design, that there is no error at all.

Through our eyes, the universe perceiving itself. Through our
ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the
witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its
glory, of its magnificence.

ON LIFE & DEATH

Dying should be one of the great events of life.

The meaning of being alive is just being alive.

ON BALANCE

Everybody has to be salted by a certain unrespectability.

The positive cannot exist without the negative.
To be implies not to be.
All insides have outsides.
You can only be on the in in relation to something that is out.

ON CHOICE & MISGUIDEDNESS

Choice is not a form of freedom in the sense of the word; choice

is the act of hesitation that occurs before making a decision.
We have been literally hypnotized by social convention into
feeling and sensing that we exist only inside our skins.
Every manifestation of life is impermanent. Our quest to make
things permanent, to straighten everything out, to get it fixed is
an impossible and insoluble problem.

ON EMOTIONS

There are no wrong feelings.

This is one of the peculiar problems of our culture, that we are
terrified of our feelings.
Most problems that are solved in a rush are solved in the wrong
way, especially emotional problems between people.
We have frustration because we are fighting the changing of
things.

ON LOVE

The first thing to discover is what indeed you do love, and you
will find there is something.
Love is not something that is a sort of rare commodity,
everybody has it.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love
is not ours to command.

Thanks to Expanded Consciousness for this article

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