Quotes about Expression

And stop talking in that puffed-up way they taught you. Words aren't brains, you know.

We all owe emotional debts to the past, in the form of feelings we couldn't allow ourselves to express. The past isn't over as long as these debts go unpaid. You don't have to return to the person who made you angry or afraid, with the intention of revising how the past turned out. For that person, the impact can never be the same as it is for you. The purpose of getting rid of emotional debt is to find your place in the present.

Chi is the equivalent of prana, and it, too, is an expression of consciousness. Chi is the subtle life-force energy that flows throughout the body and upholds health.

Intention lays the groundwork for the effortless, spontaneous, frictionless flow of pure potentiality seeking expression from the unmanifest to the manifest.

What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.

The pen is mightier than the sword as long as it doesn't run out of ink.

To know oneself one should assert oneself.

Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.

Creativity requires the willingness to look stupid.