Humans don’t really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.
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.
Anxiety is the gap between now and later.
If you are bored, you are not paying attention.
Fear is excitement without the breath.
Awareness in itself is healing.
I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.
Nothing changes until it becomes what it is.
You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage.
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.
I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.
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.
Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference.
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.
I wonder why people use only walls for hanging pictures.
Man transcends himself only via his true nature, not through ambition and artificial goals.
We must, for instance, face the fact that we blandly commit what to the experimentalist is the most unpardonable of sins: we include the experimenter in the experiment!
La angustia es siempre resultado del alejarse del ahora.
By remaining alert in the centre, we can acquire a creative ability of seeing both sides of an occurrence and completing an incomplete half.
Alimentan su computadora, el intelecto. Y el intelecto es la punta de la inteligencia. Un estorbo en la vida.