Antonin Artaud Quotes

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

Early One Morning takes time and, I mean, all things like that I felt were very important.

Life is all about the spirit.

Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

Respect talent. Get respect where respect is due, but don't be caught up in yourself where you do things obliviously and not pay attention to what is going on.

For the most part, I think of PC as meaning Plain Civil. You treat people the way you'd like to be treated yourself, and that means not using language that is demeaning.

To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.

I want to live a life full of purpose and intention. Sometimes when we play sports and athletics you can lose your purpose.

I try to be, like, hella sensitive to my surroundings.

It's very important for people to know what gives them meaning. But it's hard for people to figure out if you're not connecting with yourself and taking the time to just be introspective and daydream.

I know that I can't take anyone lightly.

We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention

To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life.

You don't have to search so hard for meaning and destiny. If you focus on keeping yourself clear and in balance and you live from your heart, destiny and your highest-good path will unfold naturally at your feet.

You can only hear clearly when you sit quietly, when you give your attention. Nor can you have order if you are not free to watch, if you are not free to listen, if you are not free to be considerate. This problem of freedom and order is one of the most difficult and urgent problems in life. It is a very complex problem. It needs to be thought over much more than mathematics, geography, or history.

Acceptance is the magic that makes change possible. It is not forever, it is for the present moment

I know people who do a lot of drugs, and they keep thinking about things from the past and things ahead. But they're not living right here and now.

Most people are so distracted by their thoughts, so identified with the voices in their heads, they no longer feel the aliveness within them. To be unable to feel the life that animates the physical body, the very life that you are, is the greatest deprivation that can happen to you.

Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present

Clarity and decisiveness come from the willingness to slow down, to listen to and look at what’s happening.

If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life

As far as our physical form, the mind is a great temple. But it has a life span and it dies.

Meditation is the only magic that can help you to be free from the mind, can help you to be free from yourself, your past and all the burden of the past.