Maurice Nicoll Quotes

#1. Maurice Nicoll says all history is a living today. We are not enjoying one spark of life in a huge, dead waste. We are, instead, existing at one point in a vast process of the living who still think and feel but are invisible to us.

Richard Matheson

#2. Humanity is regarded as unfinished, incomplete, imperfect. We have the possibility of completing ourselves, perfecting ourselves, and all that is necessary for this lies in us.

Maurice Nicoll

#3. I will also tell you a secret. We have to will one another: this is the beginning of conscious love.

Maurice Nicoll

#4. Sometimes our significant others travel with us.

Ketch Secor

#5. Martha was a clever girl, and therefore not a believer.

Julian Barnes

#6. The Work is something living in our hearts and minds. Follow the path, see what changes take place within you, and what light begins to dawn in you.

Maurice Nicoll

#7. On Twitter at last, and can't think of a thing to say. Some writer I turned out to be.

Stephen King

#8. Many people say they're looking for love, yet they're actually committed to never finding it. Many people would really rather not know the true scars and triumphs of the person who lies in their arms.

Marianne Williamson

#9. Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue.

John Ortberg

#10. Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.

Junot Diaz

#11. In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

Lady Gaga

#12. You have a right not to be negative.

Maurice Nicoll

#13. Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.

Junot Diaz

#14. You want company, sugar?"
Her eyes brimmed with tears, and she could only nod.
"Good answer. You saved yourself a fight.

Cherise Sinclair

#15. The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts.

Maurice Nicoll

#16. All our theories of improving the world, while we are still asleep, merely intensify the sleep of humanity.

Maurice Nicoll

#17. Everything you do consciously is preserved for you: everything you do mechanically, since you did not do it, is lost.

Maurice Nicoll

#18. I want to become Kiev's mayor because I love my city very much and want to improve life in it.

Vitali Klitschko

#19. It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was that the recent papers were so badly printed.

Maurice Nicoll

#20. How then can we change being? By applying the knowledge of the Work through self-observation to ourselves. And remember that you do not change by being told what to do. You only change through seeing what you have to do when you realize what your being is like.

Maurice Nicoll

#21. The human response it calls for is truly heroic, requiring nothing short of rewiring the entire planet with a new generation of clean-energy technologies - and doing that very soon ... Are we, as a species, capable of that kind of deliberate global response?

Eban Goodstein