Richard Carlson Quotes

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

I can say, 'Well, I'm a male. I'm a male human. I'm a medical doctor. I'm an author...' If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, 'I am a soul. I am a spirit.' If I go into science, I will say, 'I am energy. I am light.' But the truth is I have no idea what I am.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

A human being is not a machine. Especially when it comes to creating.

I think that our personalities and our souls have so much - we're so much more than just blood vessels and bone and muscle.

Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.

I believe that all creativity and consciousness is born in the quality of play, as opposed to work, in the quickened intuitional spontaneity that I see as a constant through all my own existences, and in the experience of those I know.

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.

What I need is to express my passion for life... It's movement I'm interested in, the life in me, the life in humanity.

Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

All of us have a 'voice' inside where all inspired thoughts come from. When I talk to children and aspiring writers, I always ask them to turn off the TV and listen to that voice inside them.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself?

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within... Nothing is more essential to us.