Quotes About Expression

You could be completely isolated by man from that which you are conscious of being; yet you would, in spite of all human barriers, effortlessly draw to yourself all that you were conscious of being. The man who is conscious of being poor does not need the assistance of anyone to express his poverty. The man who is conscious of being sick, though isolated in the most hermetically sealed germ-proof area in the world, would express sickness.

If the whole world should agree that a certain thing could not be expressed and yet you became aware of being that which they had agreed could not be expressed, you would express it. Your awareness never asks permission to express that which you are aware of being. It does so, naturally and without effort, in spite of the wisdom of man and all opposition.

Me hice consciente de serlo. Sigo siendo consciente de serlo. Y seguiré siendo consciente de serlo hasta que lo que soy consciente de ser sea perfectamente expresado. Sí, decretaré una cosa y se hará realidad.

Elevarse al nivel de cualquier estado es convertirse automáticamente la expresión de ese estado. Pero, para elevarse al nivel que no estás expresando ahora, debes abandonar completamente la conciencia con la que te identificas ahora. Mientras no abandones tu conciencia actual, no podrás elevarte a otro nivel.

Cuando esta cualidad de negación es disciplinada, protege a la persona de recibir impresiones que no están en armonía con su naturaleza. Adopta una actitud de total indiferencia ante todas las sugerencias que son ajenas a lo que desea expresar. La negación disciplinada no es una lucha o un combate, sino una indiferencia total.

A change of impression results in a change of expression.

Waste no time trying to change the outside; change the within or the impression; and the without or expression will take care of itself. When the truth of this statement dawns upon you, you will know that you have found the lost word or the key to every door.

The works are finished. All that is required of you to let these qualities into expression is the claim—I AM that. Claim yourself to be that which you desire to be and that you shall be. Expressions follow the impressions, they do not precede them. Proof that you are will follow the claim that you are, it will not precede it.

To think is to speak low, to speak is to think aloud.

He knows as a wise judge that every man perfectly expresses that which he is, as man, conscious of being. He knows that upon the changeless foundation of consciousness all manifestation rests, that changes of expression can be brought about only through changes of consciousness.

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.

I was with a group of queens, and we started walking up Christopher Street going, "Gay power! Gay power! Gay power!" We walked all the way to Eighth Avenue, and then we all looked at each other and said, "What do we do now?" So we turned round and walked all the way back down Christopher Street, still yelling, "Gay power!

The queens took the lead in the Stonewall Riots. They walked around in semi-drag with teased hair and false eyelashes on and they didn't give a shit what anybody thought about them. What did they have to lose? Absolutely fucking nothing.

Every expression of manhood is a reassertion of this cock privilege. All men are male supremacists. Gay men are no exception to the maxim.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

Words are the food, body, mirror, and sound of thought. Do you now see the danger of words that want to come out but are unable to do so?

For literature, all the world is a stage.

It was as though they had so saturated themselves with professional behaviourism that they had lost the knack of being natural.

It's a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.

People," he said, "talk about eyes and mouths as if they had something to do with the way other people think and behave. Only bits of the body, aren't they? Like navels and knees and toenails. Arrangements.

Desirée wore black for her April Fool's party. On any other woman of her age it would have been a disastrous dress but, by virtue of a sort of inner effrontery, she got away with it. Her neck, her bosom and that dismal little region, known, prettily, as the armpit, were all so many statements of betrayal, but she triumphed over them and not so much took them in her own stride as obliged other people to take them in theirs.

You can't be beautiful and a writer, because to be a writer you have to be the one doing the looking; if you're beautiful people will be looking at you.

Fionn learned that to make a poet you need: Fire of Song, Light of Knowledge and the Art of Recitation

the more the musicians played the more it struck me that Irish music was a language of its own, accommodating expression of ecstasy and rapture and lightness and fun as well as sadness and darkness and loss, and that in its rhythms and repetitions was the trace history of humanity thereabouts, going round and round.