Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

I heard that your subconscious is on the right side. I always shut my right eye when I play, or both eyes. I feel like you go to a deeper place in your subconscious, and you tell the stories that are more deeply within you.

Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. an unknown sage - whose name is self. In yourt body he dwells; he is your body. There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.

I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.

Please don't be deterred in the fanatic application of your sterile logic.

Common sense is often common nonsense. There is much that we have learned from science that is counter-intuitive.

I've always felt that the truth is in the silence.

We can find Nature outside us only if we have first learned to know her within us. What is akin to her within us must be our guide. This marks out our path of enquiry.

Write the story you need to tell and want to read. It's impossible to know what others want, so don't waste time trying to guess.

I always say your truth is your compass to your purpose.

I've had experiences where my life will try to tell me something in a dream and sometimes it's something I'm not ready to hear.

I try and stay in my right brain as much as I can, but my left takes over.

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.

Your intuition is not the same thing as your mind. In fact, intuition is really the opposite of your mind - and you need to use BOTH in living your day-to-day life.

I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.

Before you embark on it you ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path.

You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else's lamp. You want to borrow mine. I'd rather teach you how to make your own.

I think that we can learn so much if we pay attention to our dreams, whether when we are asleep or in waking dreams. There are connections that are absolutely incredible.

The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.

As you go down the path of life, ask whats true. Not who else believes it.