"There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes"

“It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.”

“I am not out to liberate anybody. You have to liberate yourself, and you are unable to do that. What I have to say will not do it. I am only interested in describing this state, in clearing away the occultation and mystification in which those people in the 'holy business' have shrouded the whole thing. Maybe I can convince you not to waste a lot of time and energy, looking for a state which does not exist except in your imagination.”

“People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.”

“They waste life in what are called good resolutions-partial efforts at reformation, feebly commenced, heartlessly conducted, and hopelessly concluded.”

Source : Charles Robert Maturin (1819). “Sermons”, p.262

“You can not have an argument with a fully conscious person.”

Source : Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.182, New World Library

“You have the insanity that is geo-engineering which is a case in which you say the planet is heating up. Let's spray some aerosol and cool it down.”

“I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.”

Source : "A life in Vogue: Hamish Bowles". Interview with Wendy Donahue, www.chicagotribune.com. May 16, 2014.

“If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?”