Clifford Stoll Quotes

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

Once I got over my anger and rage from childhood, once I stopped feeling like a victim, I was able to open myself to great sources of learning.

Trust allows you to follow your feelings through your defenses to their sources, and to bring to the light of consciousness those aspects of yourself that resist wholeness, that live in fear.

I've been ignoring my feelings lately. That works pretty well. Might also settle for less this week, just to try it out.

How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?

I suppose you're right about some perspectives. Just a few weeks ago, I thought you were a dickhead.

It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.

View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.

How do I know that I know this, except that I've always been taught this and never heard anything else? [...] How sure am I of my own views? Don't take refuge in the false security of consensus, and the feeling that whatever you think you're bound to be okay, because you're in the safely moral majority.

Listen to me, goblin. You're stupid, let's accept that and move on.

I don't like things to be handed to me on a plate; that means nothing. I like to go through layers of unraveling and every time I listen to something, it makes me feel something different. Now I'm aware of the conflict that's going on, but at the time I just let what was happening happen.

I. Don't trace out your profile-- forget your side view-- all that is outer stuff. II. Look for your other half who walks always next to you and tends to be who you aren't.

I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?

The world "out there" won't change until the world "in here" does.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

I’m pleased by anything in myself that strikes me as not myself.

I feel like as I've gotten older I've unfortunately come to the decision that a lot of people who seem normal and boring maybe are normal and boring.

Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence—which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence.

It's a weird feeling when people are defining you, and you haven't even defined yourself.

My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and aspiration I have respect. It is from these that I speak.

It was easier to know a character's point of view than it was to figure out what your point of view was.

The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.

I must try, however, as best I can, although I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.

If you let love solve everything for you, you have a lot of problems.

If you have made three or four films, my feeling is, he is older than me because I am still making my first movie. That helps me.