Gretel Ehrlich Quotes

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.

Every child is simple, just a clean slate. Then the parents start writing on his slate - what he has to become. Then the teachers, the priests, the leaders - they all go on emphasizing that you have to become somebody; otherwise, you have wasted your life. Just the opposite is the case. You are a being. You need not become anybody else. That is the meaning of simplicity: remaining at ease with one's being, and not going on any track of becoming - which is unending.

When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.

Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not.

Don't be sharp or flat; just be natural.

Be - don't try to become.

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.

I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I am.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

In my house, when I don't bring any makeup, when wearing comfortable clothes and when I'm playing with my kids, that's the moment where I feel the most beautiful.

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

I've always been searching. What am I going to do with all this - searching for that place where I could be me.

I just want to be who I am, as I am.

There's nothing better than when a man is in tune with who he is.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

The more I got into presenting things to the world, the further it was taking me away from what I was, which was someone who just used to sit quietly at a piano and sing and play. It became very important to me not to lose sight of that.

I'm at peace with myself because what I talk about is the way I live.