Robert Shea Quotes

I am a poor hater.

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.

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

I still got the nasty in me.

I feel so detached from what I am on the outside. The person I am on the inside is very separate.

The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,'the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether.

It is your attachment that creates hell.

Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit and vegetables. Suppose, then, that the gardener of this garden knew no other distinction between edible and inedible, nine-tenths of this garden would be useless to him. He would pull up the most enchanting flowers and hew down the noblest trees and even regard them with a loathing and envious eye. This is what the Steppenwolf does with the thousand flowers of his soul. What does not stand classified as either man or wolf he does not see at all.

In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up.

I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it.

He that hath hornes in his bosom, let him not put them on his head.

Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.

You know why you hate me so much, Jeffery? Because I look the way you feel.

Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.

Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.

It was not the beautiful or pleasant feelings that gave me new insight, but the ones against which I fought most strongly: feelings that made me experience myself as shabby, petty, mean, helpless, humiliated, demanding, resentful or confused, and above all, sad and lonely. It was precisely through these experiences, which I had shunned for so long, that I became certain that I now understood something about my life, stemming from the core of my being, something that I could not have learned from any book.

That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.

The ego promotes turmoil because it wants to substantiate your separateness from everyone, including God. It will push you in the direction of judgment and comparison, and cause you to insist on being right and best. You know your highest self by listening to the voice that only wants you to be at peace.

So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him.

I am a Sagittarius. Two people live within me. One's a very savvy businessperson; the other's a party girl. Part of me is a very sensitive, connected, balanced person, and the other part is a selfish, fame-seeking asshole. Terrorist, really.

There are instances when we are like horses, we psychologists, and grow restless: we see our own shadow wavering up and down before us. A psychologist must look away from himself in order to see anything at all.

I hated myself for needing him at such times, for craving his strength whenever I felt upset.