Alain-René Lesage Quotes

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

I am two with nature.

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.

Humans are vulnerable and rely on the kindnesses of the earth and the sun; we exist together in a sacred field of meaning.

I need them as much as they need me.

It's all about togetherness and to pay the other the necessary respect. If you do that, then we all would feel better. It is not always a taking but also a giving in both directions.

Freedom and relationship are polar opposites - they both exist on the same continuum. You DO want a relationship - and you DO want freedom - what you really want is BALANCE, you want wholeness.

Do not focus too much on the east and forget the west. And do not ignore the south, to speak for the north. What happens in the east has effects in the north, as the west has in the south. And do not focus on one species and ignore the other. Or love your father but ignore your mother, or love your sister but ignore your brother. Do not forget each other. We are all part of each other. We are all ONE.

As I am, so are others as others are, so am I. Having thus identified self and others, harm no one nor have them harmed.

The strong need the weak as much as the weak need the strong

You need boundaries... Even in our material creations, boundaries mark the most beautiful of places, between the ocean and the shore, between the mountains and the plains, where the canyon meets the river.

There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity.

You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.

Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.

The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other.

Just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving.

In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone.

There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working. When that stops we all die.

As Unto the bow the the cord is , So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him , yet she follows: Useless each without the other.

If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.

There cannot be friendship without equality.

Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing owe; And yet they do, but are So just and rich in that coin which they pay, That neither would, nor needs forbear, nor stay; Neither desires to be spared nor to spare. They quickly pay their debt, and then Take no acquittances, but pay again; They pay, they give, they lend, and so let fall No such occasion to be liberal. More truth, more courage in these two do shine, Than all thy turtles have and sparrows, Valentine.

Universe is synergetic. Life is synergetic.