Sixto Rodriguez Quotes

I think everyone's pretty much the same underneath. The collective unconscious is a real thing. There's only a few emotions, and we all have them. There's, like, seven emotions. So personal is universal. Everyone experiences confusion, joy and pain, just in different forms.

Do not discount the psychic warmth of the hive.

I believe a lot in energies, and I feel that everyone's energies synced in 'Masaan.'

None of us get to divorce ourselves from the world. We walk into the theater and bring all of our grief and our pain and our joy with us.

There is one and the same soul in many bodies.

The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.

There's a sense here in L.A. that everybody's aware of everybody all the time. It's funny but we choose it. People who are here want to be here, including me.

The attitude of other people affects each of us and the attitude of each of us has the capacity to affect all of us.

We're all water from different rivers, That's why it's so easy to meet, We're all water in this vast, vast ocean, Someday we'll evaporate together.

Unity Consciousness is the experience of the 7 billion plus people on the planet being moved by the same force, which is God. It is the awareness to see what we really are: One Living Being. However, this is a truth that really can't be explained with words; the minute you say it, it is no longer truth.

Like we were connected, the echo of his pain twisted inside inside me. his pain, my pain.

I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.

I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you.

We are never alone. We are all aspects of one great being. No matter how far apart we are, the air links us.

I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.

Popular thought appeals to crowds, gatherings and tribes, who use it as a way to guide the herd. It is very evident in protests - sometimes the very people doing the protesting have NO IDEA what they are talking about.

Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.

Although we think that we think, most of the time we are being thought by the collective mind, the hypnosis of conditioning.

I really believe in a oneness. So if I'm looking at somebody else, it's not in a narcissistic way, but you're kind of seeing yourself.

I feel a whole country growing inside me, thousands of years, millions of people, stupid, crazy, shrewd people, and all of them me. I never felt like that before, I never felt that there was anything inside me, even myself.

No self is of itself alone.

They call it collective energy. It's that same feeling that you get when you meditate amongst a ton of people. What actually makes the festival feel so special is that while you're watching a band or an artist, you're standing there, kind of feeling the same feeling with so many people in such a small space and that gives you collective energy. It's that kind of strange feeling in which you almost feel people breathing.

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.

We really are All One....this is the very philosophy that has kept me virtually anonymous in America for fifteen years.

When our hearts open, when we know that we are in fact the world, when we experience the pain of others in our own blood and muscle, we are feeling compassion.