15 quotes
Scientific research is the art of asking the right question in the right way.
You Are Not The Target (1963)
There are almost as many ways of helping people to feel better as there are human beings.
You Are Not The Target (1963)
You alone can change yourself, and when you do, then circumstances and people will both seem and be changed.
You Are Not The Target (1963)
We should train ourselves in the use of imagination when we are well, so that we are ready to use it when we are not.
You Are Not The Target (1963)
Like any other faculty, imagination can be starved and suffocated or stimulated and nourished.
You Are Not The Target (1963)
In all its manifestations and however it is produced, not-love tends to beget not-love. The energy of love is needed to reconvert not-love into love.
You Are Not The Target (1963)
Imagine what life would be like without imagination! There would be no Michelangelo or Da Vinci, no Edison, no delinquents and no saints, no Mozart, no nuclear power.
You Are Not The Target (1963)
It is feeling the energy, becoming conscious of it, that permits us to redirect it according to the best of our physical, intellectual, and ethical knowledge.
You Are Not The Target (1963)
Our creative potential has many aspects, but undoubtedly the most important one is to make good use of ourselves and what we are here and now, at each successive moment.
You Are Not The Target (1963)
Service or giving is the other side of receiving. Giving and receiving is a full circle: a full circle feels more natural than a half circle.
It is harmful to reject a human being; it is harmful to be rejected. When we do not respect or love ourselves we commit both offenses. ("Love Yourself as You Love Your Neighbor")
You Are Not The Target (1963)
Often a question, the first one, is not the real question at all but a substitute which our unconscious self has artfully framed to protect our superficial comfort from being disturbed by a deeper, more troubling doubt.
You Are Not The Target (1963)
It is almost as destructive not to respect and love oneself as it is to respect and love only oneself. ("Love Yourself as You Love Your Neighbor")
You Are Not The Target (1963)
Infinity and eternity are the limits of imagination. You can project your imagination into the past or into the future; you can destroy an old image that has troubled you or create a new one that will rejoice you.
You Are Not The Target (1963)
Whether you are nineteen or ninety, whether you weigh one hundred or three hundred pounds, whether you move with ease or difficulty, whether your joints are supple or stiff-no matter. Dance. ("Dance Naked With Music")
You Are Not The Target (1963)