Roger Avary Quotes

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

There's this idea that, 'All I have at the end of the day is my mind.' That's the only thing you can control. I believe that.

I can control what I can control. I just focus on me, and that's it.

I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.

Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom, and justice; and to give thyself relief from all other thoughts. And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion which has been given to thee.

It takes courage and intelligence, you know, to do the stages of Yoga right, and to start with this Hatha Yoga… It’s just you and nothing but you, standing in one spot frozen like a statue with no place to go for help or excuse or scapegoat except inward.

Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep. The dream of ordinary unconsciousness then turns into a nightmare.

My goal was to be able to be alone without food, sugar, phone, men, TV, anything and to feel O.K. about myself.

You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you.

There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.

I don't lack confidence. I don't sweat. I don't want to get too Zen on you, but I have to run my own race.

The only one who can beat me is me.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me, and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

We think we control our environment, but in fact, it's our environment that controls us. We can't change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.