My deepest desire is to do the thing that is first and foremost just.
Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off.
You don't want political acts to become something you just have to do in order to look good.
It's best to keep acting real.
Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.
All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture.
We can't go out and tell ourselves we've done good if we haven't.
Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again --- it never would have been the same. Start stealing!
Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.
I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.
The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.
Reality doesn't have any preconceived ideas. You've got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette. You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You've got to do things and not show them.
If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier
Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and act up to all that they believe!
