A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".
As Albert Einstein once said to me: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. " But what is much more widespread than the actual stupidity is the playing stupid, turning off your ear, not listening, not seeing. . . playing helpless.
I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.
Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.
I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.
We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows.
I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.
You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. Imagine how happy I felt when I got relief from bladder pressure. How long did that happiness last?
It feels much nobler to feel guilty than resentful, and it takes more courage to express resentment than guilt. With expressing guilt you expect to pacify your opponent; with expressing resentment you might stir up hostility in him.
Nothing changes until it becomes what it is.
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
Learning is discovering that somethinkg is possible.
Awareness in itself is healing.
Lose your mind and come to your senses.
Teaching means to show a person that something is possible.
. . . nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.
I wonder why people use only walls for hanging pictures.
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.
Learning is to discover that something is possible. We are using most of our energies for self-destructiv e games, self-preventing games. We prevent ourselves from growing the very moment something unpleasant, something painful comes up. At that moment we become phobic, we run away, we desensitize ourselves. Neurotic suffering is suffering in imagination, suffering in fantasy.
So if you find out how you prevent yourself from growing, from using your potential, you have away of increasing this, making life richer, making you more and more capable of mobilizing yourself. And our potential is based upon a very peculiar attitude: to live and review every fresh second