Quote Dr. Richard Alpert

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“I realized I had the game wrong. The game was to find out what I already was.” – Dr. Richard Alpert</div>

Inspirational Quotes

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

~Dr. Seuss

Where there is great love there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

"Sometimes you have to stop thinking so much
and go where your heart takes you"

 -Anonymous

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward

 

May your spirit sour throughtout the vast cathedral of your being
May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity
May your heart sind sweet Lullibies of timelessness
  -Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. 
~Stephen Leacock

 

If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows like a shadow.

~Buddha

“There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.” 

— Martha Graham

 

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” 

— Mary Lou Cook

 

“So you see, imagination needs moodling – long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.”  

— Brenda Ueland 

 

“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.” 

— Albert Camus 

 

“You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.”

— Sean Connery 

 

“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.” 

— Huxley, Thomas

“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
— Goethe

 

When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.

- John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002)

 

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

-Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

 

I think there are two keys to being creatively productive. One is not being daunted by one's fear of failure. the second is sheer perseverance.

-Mary-Claire King 

If you are going to be original, you are going to be wrong a lot.

-Anonymous 

 

The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.

-Rita Mae Brown (Starting From Scratch) 

He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire. -    Lao-tzu 

The body is a sacred garment. -Martha Graham

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion.  Then I go out and paint the stars. 

~Vincent Van Gogh

 

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. 

~Tuli Kupferberg

 

 

Recognizing Abundance

There is one life, one infinite, always creating, ever expanding All. I am one with this All, indivisible from it. And I know that this One appears as an infinite number of beings, all powered by the same source. I know that simply by looking around at this world, I am filled with a realization of abundance-abundance of beauty, of order, of life. I go to a beach and see an abundance of sand, of water, of sunlight. I go to a national forest and see and abundance of beauty, of order, of life. In my office I see an abundance of projects, and infinite variety of choices and possibilities awaiting me each day. In fact, everywhere I look I see abundance, and only abundance. There is no place that I can look at where abundance is not the order of the day. I know that this recognition of abundance is spreading infinitely and continuously to every person on this planet. I give thanks for this truth and so I release this word now, and let it be so, and so it is, amen.
- eagleprosperity.net

To see all as One

The test ...

The test is being indifferent to pain and pleasure, and perceiving them as being the same (sama-duhkha-sukha). We are, all of us, positioned on some point of the curve, the peak or the trough, that depicts movement from pleasure to pain and vice-versa.

He unto whom - self-centred - grief and joy

Sound as one word;

- Ibid.XIV.24

The test is seeing a clod of dirt, a rock (literally iron), or a piece of gold as being the same - having the same value. They are all the One.

to whose deep-seeing eyes

The clod, the marble, and the gold are one;

- Ibid.XIV.24

The test is perceiving those who are loved and that which is agreeable (priya) with the same evenness as those who are not loved and that which is disagreeable (apriya).

The test is reacting to both praise (samstati) and blame (ninda) with the same steadfast impartial dispassion (XIV.24). Everyone you know, every being is subject to their gunas - including all who dwell in the now invisible worlds, spirit guides and extraterrestrials, evolved or otherwise.

Whose equal heart holds the same gentleness

For lovely and unlovely things, firm-set,

Well-pleased in praise and dispraise;

- Ibid.XIV.24

Impartial to all ...

from:From the Bhagva Gita

Sanskrit Quotes

सन्तोषः परमो लाभः सत्सङ्गः परमा गतिः ।
विचारः परमं ज्ञानं शमो हि परमं सुखम् ॥


Contentment is the highest gain,
Good Company the highest course,
Enquiry the highest wisdom,
and Peace the highest enjoyment

यदा किञ्चिज्ज्ञोऽहं द्विप इव मदान्ध: समभवम्
तदा सर्वज्ञोऽस्मीत्यभवदवलिप्तं मम मन:।
यदा किञ्चित्किञ्चिद्बुधजनसकाशादवगतं
तदा मूर्खोऽस्मीति ज्वर इव मदो मे व्यपगत:॥

When I had little knowledge, I had become blind by pride like an elephant (during rut). Then my mind was proud , thinking that I am an omniscient. As and when I realized bit by bit in the association of wise men, my pride waned like a fever, as I came to know that I was a fool, actually.

अमंत्रमक्षरं नास्ति नास्ति मूलमनौषधम्‌।
अयोग्यः पुरुषो नास्ति योजकस्तत्र दुर्लभः॥
There is no letter which doesn't have charm (curative property).
There is no root which doesn't have medicinal property.
There is no man who is not able.
Rare is a person who knows its proper application.
from:sanskrit-quote.blogspot.com

You are what your deep, driving desire is...

Brihadaranyakopanishat 4.4.5

काममय एवायं पुरुष इति।
स यथाकामो भवति तत्क्रतुर्भवति।
यत्क्रतुर्भवति तत्कर्म कुरुते।
यत्कर्म कुरुते तदभिसंपद्यते॥

You are what your deep, driving desire is
As your desire is, so is your will
As your will is, so is your deed
As your deed is, so is your destiny

Sanskrit Quote