Adriano Giannini Quotes

My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.

I definitely had a wild phase.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and my spirituality that life is not perfect, and I grew up wanting it to be and thinking that if it wasn't, I could make it that way, and I had to acknowledge that I had all kinds of flaws and sadnesses and problems.

The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.

As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.

After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time.

I'm crazy. I know I'm crazy 'cause Desmond Tutu told me, and he's very clever. He said, 'You must free yourself, be more of who you are. Be more crazy.' And I'm going to.

My point of reference is life, in everything that I do.

I am anti-ideological. Ideology destroys your freedom. It binds you to the herd.

Your mind is a free port. There are no customs house officers to examine the cargoes that are unladen.

Your success is in your point of view. It's your life that you're talking about; it's your observations. That's the best lesson that I ever had.

Ageing might have its drawbacks but it brings with it hard-won wisdom and a wonderful sense of freedom.

I've found that the older I get, the more spontaneous I become.

When we practice cleaning our slate and interacting without motive, what we actually 'get' in return is greater than what we might have expected. Life can open up and be full of surprises that blow past our narrow expectations.

It is relatively impossible for people to have clear perspectives on themselves when they're in the midst of them, and often harder to recollect after the times, eras, and situations themselves have passed.

I was only in Scotland for four months or something, but I look back at that, and it was a big learning curve for me in that short spell. I went there with an open mind to show everyone in Scotland what I was about. Looking back, I am very glad with the decision I made.

A really hard lesson to learn is that most of the time, it's not about you.

The idea is to be unrestrained by categories.

In the wider context, what I believe I was - the point I was making was that our life experiences do permit us to see some facts and understand them more easily than others.

All freedom to man, but freedom is useful when we know what life is, when we know what past is, what present is, when we know how to go about things, not that every man should be left to experiment by himself.

One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.

So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.

Live by your experience and do not let limited beliefs alter your life experience.