Peter Redgrove Quotes

#1. This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one's potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life.

Carl Rogers

#2. Time is standing still. We are measuring ourselves by how far we are going.

Debasish Mridha

#3. The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.

Peter Redgrove

#4. We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as transfiguration

Peter Redgrove

#5. It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, spread over the whole being. It might seem, then, that our bodies still live in Eden, but our minds refuse to know it.

Peter Redgrove

#6. The Romantic movement among other things was concerned to bring back into permitted human experience occasions when the 'invisible but real world' was of paramount importance, when the non-visual or dark senses were operating as organs of knowledge.

Peter Redgrove

#7. On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

Gore Vidal

#8. The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn't know I exist.

Philip K. Dick

#9. It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out.

Peter Redgrove

#10. Alas, I've tried to be honest, because honesty makes me feel less alone.

Anna Kendrick

#11. The first kind builds character. You cannot grow without this kind of problem, any more than you can build muscles without exercise.

John C. Wright

#12. Data that comes subliminally and is acted upon will look like luck or inspiration.

Peter Redgrove

#13. I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful - that's what I aim for. My sculpture is about the way you feel when you're standing under it and inside it. It's experiential art.

Janet Echelman

#14. I think probably everybody works most on the beginning and the ending.

William Monahan

#15. I was his and he was mine, and we were the beginning and middle and end. We were a song that had been sung from the very first ember of light in the world.

Sarah J. Maas

#16. Our approach to reality, our sense of reality, cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram concealing just a single meaning. Rather, it is an expanding riddle of a multiplicity of resonating images.

Peter Redgrove

#17. There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.

Paul Theroux