Welwood Spiritual Bypassing Quotes & Sayings

The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her. — Jacques Maritain

What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we've read? What matters is how we feel, how we see, what we do after reading; whether the street and the clouds and the existence of others mean anything to us; whether reading makes us, physically, more alive. — Gabriel Zaid

All of a sudden, space isn't friendly. All of a sudden, it's a place where people can die ... Many more people are going to die. But we can't explore space if the requirement is that there be no casualties; we can't do anything if the requirement is that there be no casualties. — Isaac Asimov

It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money. — Al Alvarez

They decided as part of my 75th birthday celebrations that I would be entitled to fly first class. I'll be honest, I'm not good at flying anymore. To my credit, I can stretch out on two coach seats. — Chuck Feeney

It's worse than a disease. It's a poison. — Lauren Oliver

It was the kind of library he had only read about in books. — Alan Bennett

There is a certain artificial polish, a commonplace vivacity acquired by perpetually mingling in the beau monde; which, in the commerce of world, supplies the place of natural suavity and good-humour, but is purchased at the expense of all original and sterling traits of character. — Washington Irving

We all know gifs are pronounced "jifs," right? Their creator says so, damn it! — Bill Walsh

If one keeps on adapting, their contribution will be limited. They
can only imitate but never create. — Ravindra Shukla

Every idea that is a true idea has a form, and is capable of many forms. The variety of forms of which it is capable determines the value of the idea. So by way of ideas, and your mastery of them in relation to what you are doing, will come your value as an architect to your society and future. That's where you go to school. You can't get it in a university, you can't get it here, you can't get it anywhere except as you love it, love the feeling of it, desire and pursue it. And it doesn't come when you are very young, I think. I believe it comes faster with each experience, and the next is very simple, or more simple, until it becomes quite natural to you to become master of the idea you would express.
"Idea and Essence" September 7, 1958 — Frank Lloyd Wright

Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters. — Milos Forman