67 Quotes by George Leonard

Our preoccupation with goals, results, and the quick fix has separated us from our own experiences.

The best way to describe your total creative capacity is to say that for all practical purposes it is infinite.

At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silent pulse of perfect rhythm, made up of wave forms and resonances, which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything in the universe. The act of getting in touch with this pulse can transform our personal experience and in some way alter the world around us.

To be a learner, you've got to be willing to be a fool.

For the master, surrender means there are no experts. There are only learners.

Intentionality fuels the master's journey. Every master is a master of vision.

Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.

Of what is the body made? It is made of emptiness and rhythm. At the ultimate heart of the body, at the heart of the world, there is no solidity... there is only the dance.

The human individual is equipped to learn and go on learning prodigiously from birth to death, and this is precisely what sets him or her apart from all other known forms of life.