"The key to all aristeia and wisdom and gnosis is a seed that conformist and mediocritist and democratist Americans haven't got even a scintilla of a prospect of nourishing, and that is sapere aude: DARE TO BE WISE."

-- Kenny Smith

#Wise Quotes #Keys Quotes #Gnosis Quotes

“Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it.”

Source : Chaim Potok (2010). “The Gift of Asher Lev”, p.240, Ballantine Books
“We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.”
“You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.”
“Strangely enough we strengthen love in ourselves when we raise into consciousness the shadow side of our lives. Conversely, when we keep negative feelings out of sight, they smother the love that seems to lie deeper and closer to the real self. This is probably why there is so much pain in not loving. The life that is not able to express the love which is so integral to it grows deformed.”
“When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?”
“A gift in time of need is most acceptable.”
“Writing every day across nine time zones because Gillian [Grassie] was in Berlin, and we were working together via Skype. It was pretty intense. I'm really happy with how it turned out.”
“Do you wanna play? Everyone's dead, so I got bored. Did you come to play with me? --Wrath”

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