Maimonides Quotes

Bowing is a very serious practice. You should be prepared to bow, even in your last moment. even though it is impossible to get rid of our self-centered desires, we have to do it. Our true nature wants us to.

When you talk and think of the Absolute, you have to do it in the relative; so all these logical arguments apply.

It must be understood that prime matter, and form as well, is neither generated nor corrupted, because every generation is from something to something. Now that from which generation proceeds is matter, and that to which it proceeds is form. So that, if matter or form were generated, there would be a matter for matter and a form for form, endlessly. Whence, there is generation only of the composite, properly speaking.

Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they’re only habits and give no clue at all to my character, whatever that is. The most difficult performance in the world is acting naturally isn’t it? Everything else is artful.

It so often happens that somebody says 'change your life' and you repaint your car rather than re-wire the engine.

Through death you find yourself, because you no longer identify with form. You realize you are not the form with which you had identified ­ neither the physical nor the psychological form of "me". That form goes. It dissolves and who you are beyond form emerges through the opening where that form was. One could almost say that every form of life obscures God.

You put on a face for the public. The face isn't false; it's just another side of you. If it were false, you couldn't last. People want something real and natural, and if they catch you acting, you're dead. It has to look real. In order to look real, it has to be real, and I've always thought of the characters I've played as real people.

I was born with these eyes. I was born for this life.

Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

Sometimes when everything has totally apart, the meaningless preoccupations that so often dominate our lives simply fall away. And what is left is who we really are, and who we really are is compassionate and intelligent and wise.

Image is what people think we are. Integrity is what we really are.

The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.

very young people are true but not resounding instruments.

Tis easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue-- 'Tis the natural way of living.

What you were is forever who you are.

The soul of the artist cannot remain hidden.

Behavior is a much better barometer of what you are than words.

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.

The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In death, as on the chimney sweep’s Saturday night, the soot gets washed from his body.

Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego.

Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are... People are different when you can smell them and see them up close.

Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals

It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.