Spira Quotes

#1. Spira, spera.

(breathe, hope)

Victor Hugo

#2. States is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build creative digital-age economies, Jobs

Walter Isaacson

#3. I began to wonder why we cuddle some animals and put a fork in others.

Henry Spira

#4. The greatest discovery in life is to discover that our essential nature does not share the limits nor the destiny of the body and mind.

Rupert Spira

#5. Love is the natural condition of all experience before thought has divided it into a multiplicity and diversity of objects, selves and others.

Rupert Spira

#6. The discovery that peace, happiness and love are ever-present within our own Being, and completely available at every moment of experience, under all conditions, is the most important discovery that anyone can make.

Rupert Spira

#7. Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere.

Rupert Spira

#8. Many of our ideas and beliefs about ourselves and the world are so deeply ingrained that we are unaware that they are beliefs and take them, without question, for the absolute truth.

Rupert Spira

#9. The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are!

H.L. Mencken

#10. We take that which is unreal to be real and that which is real to be unreal.

Rupert Spira

#11. My dream is that people will come to view eating an animal as cannibalism.

Henry Spira

#12. Happiness is simply to allow everything to be exactly as it is from moment to moment.

Rupert Spira

#13. Time is the eternal now, seen through the narrow slit of the mind.

Rupert Spira

#14. Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own interests.

Henry Spira

#15. Nothing is more real than those great seismic shocks that two souls give each other in exchanging that spark.

Victor Hugo

#16. We don't have to wait for the right circumstances to have happiness.

Rupert Spira

#17. Set goals that are achievable. Bring about meaningful change one step at a time. Raising awareness is not enough.

Henry Spira

#18. Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.

Samuel Johnson

#19. Love is the experience that others are not others. Beauty is the experience that objects are not objects.

Rupert Spira

#20. The world is known by the senses
The senses are known by the mind
The mind is known by Consciousness
And Consciousness is known by itself

Rupert Spira

#21. Looking for happiness in the body, mind or world is like looking for the screen in a movie. The screen doesn't appear in the movie, and yet, at the same time, all that is seen in the movie is the screen. In the same way that the screen 'hides' in plain view, so happiness 'hides' in all experience.

Rupert Spira

#22. People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#23. In ignorance I am something; in understanding I am nothing, in love I am everything.

Rupert Spira

#24. When feeling is divested of the feeler and the felt, it shines as love; when seeing is divested of the seer and the seen, it shines as beauty.

Rupert Spira

#25. The mind, the body and the world are made out of Consciousness but Consciousness is not made out of them. It is made out of itself. Therefore everything is made only out of Consciousness.

Rupert Spira