Libba Bray Quotes

To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.

Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.

I thought, When a man is properly drunk it is as though he is an a room by himself--there is a physical, impenetrable separation between him and his fellows.

I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.

Being with him was like being alone underwater - everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold when I resurfaced.

You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away.

I'm somewhat in my own cloud.

Everything else outside me seems far, far away.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

I'm kind of in my own world.

Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.

I would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.

I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life.

It would be pleasant to be drunk.

There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.

I had learned so much about the world that I had decided to withdraw from it.

And when you don't have to talk to the person next to you, that's real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.

Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.

Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.

I get really excited when I have moments where my head - my mind - disappears, and I get this moment where I start to tingle, and maybe sweat a little bit, when I'm in that space of feeling real connected with everything, every living thing. I first started feeling this probably as a child, but again when I started meditating.

Be alone even when there's a million people around, because tomorrow it will be a different million people.

If you want to be a yogi, you must be free, and place yourself in circumstances where you are alone and free from all anxiety. One who desires a comfortable and nice life and at the same time wants to realize the Self is like the fool who, wanting to cross the river, caught hold of a crocodile, mistaking it for a log of wood.

The important thing is to be drunk.