QUOTES
OUTLOOK"All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it." "If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it." "What people experience as obstacles in life are reflections of a decision to shut out understanding." "it takes a lot of effort to drop all of the artificial barriers about reality that exist only within the confines of our own stilted imaginations." "It is important that you do away with the idea that the world must correspond to illusions of sequence and order." "The meaning of life is everything." "If you don't have much going wrong in your life, then you don't have much going on in your life." "If you mess up, big deal. Just admit it, fix it, and move on. Other than that, life's a party." "Every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it is telling you what you need to look at to create good for you" "Childhood is a state of mind. It is an ongoing quest for learning. I, for one, don't want to put that aside,
and I don't think anyone else should either." "my intention is more to be real than good. It's a funny thing; lots of good comes from that." "100% of the shots you don't take don't go in." "The opposite of play is not work. It's depression."
INDIVIDUALITY"It is unreasonable to think you'll become outstanding if you only do what other people do -
normal things, things that are usual, traditional, trivial." "When you give someone a rule, you take away a choice. And when you take away a choice, you take away
an opportunity to learn." "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." "At our best we human beings are much, much grander than merely rational; at our best we transcend rationality while incorporating its procedures into our lower levels of functioning." "If you don't use your mind, someone else will" "If you put fences around people, you will get sheep." "No wonder our kids are mental cases - we're sending them to institutions."
WISDOM"The best use of time is to reconnect to your being." "No new truth is ever really learned until it is acted upon." "Stress comes from knowing what is right and doing what is wrong." "If it weren't for the enormous effort we put into denial, repression, and doubt, life
would be a constant revelation." "More damage has been done to others by persons leading lives of quiet desperation (that is, doing
what they felt they 'had' to do) than ever was done by persons freely doing what they wanted to do." "Facts are always evolving. They are not solid entities at all; they have a life span, disintegrate, and give way to new facts, sometimes quickly." "The people in your world will be as big - or small - as you let them be. Their attitudes and abilities are not absolute hard facts. Your expectations play a major role in how they perform."
SPIRITUALITY"Science is God explaining God through a human nervous system.
Isn't spirituality the same thing?" "Getting serious about putting an end to violence means giving up a personal stake in the world." "Being a nice as possible to others and causing no harm isn't the same as nonviolence in the sprirtual sense." "The one reality is spirit, and the surface of life is only a disguise with a thousand masks to keep us from discovering what is real." "If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong."
JUDGMENT"Rational people know they cannot judge persons but only issues. They have no X-ray eyes to see the
intention, conscience, or knowledge of another. They confine themselves to an assessment of what is done rather
than attempt a judgment of the doer of the deed." "Flexible and open people are contented with tentative judgments, which they keep revising as new evidence
comes in. Instead of bending the facts to fit their conclusions, they keep revising their conclusions to accommodate all
the known facts. Rigid people live fixed and static lives in a small world. They keep their world small so they can
handle it." "Evil exists in everyone as a shadow." "Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived life."
FUN STUFF"Denial stands for Don't Even Notice I Am Lying." "Sixty-four kilobytes [of memory] ought to be plenty for anyone" "If 'con' is the opposite of 'pro', then isn't 'Congress' the opposite of 'progress'? "The holy grail of game design is to make a game where the challenges are never ending, the skills required are varied,
and the difficulty curve is perfect and adjusts itself to exactly our skill level. Someone did this already, though, and
it's not always fun. It's called 'life'. Maybe you've played it." "There are two sorts of people in this world, those who divide everyone into two sorts of people and those who don't." "When beetles battle beetles in a puddle paddle battle and the beetle battle puddle is a puddle in a bottle,
they call this a tweetle beetle bottle puddle paddle battle muddle, AND when beetles fight these battles in a bottle
with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles, they call this a
muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle." |