409 Quotes by Laurence Galian

Lovers 'devour' one another.

When we fear something, when we are faced with the frightening unknown, this is a call to take notice that our fear, this unknown, contains wisdom that will make you much stronger. People are terrified of themselves, and often turn to external means and techniques with the intention of controlling their outer lives, creating the false belief that all is well. If you can go to the place of the deepest parts of yourself, and then proceed from that profundity, you can manifest real magick.

Here is a big occult secret: Time flows in both directions at once! In other words, we are not only being carried along into the future on an ocean wave of time, but the future is at this very moment flowing toward us! The point where we meet head-on is the present.

More wisdom can be transmitted through a novel than a textbook.

Cold facts never can sprout into flowers of wisdom.

It' doesn't care whether you go to church or not. 'It' doesn't care whether you join a religion of not. 'It' is a mystery that comes and goes as 'It' wishes, and when 'It' wishes.

It is important to note that the imitation of Yaldabaoth’s Earth is a thought in his mind. Yaldabaoth’s Earth is not real. The point for the reader to remember is that when a person feels an thinks that the world, in which he or she is living, is a horrible and loveless place, he or she has entered Yaldabaoth’s mind.

Sufism travels into the realm of story, inspired analogy and esoteric understanding of the Qur'an, so that the Sufi may ultimately become the Essence.

We fear what is uncontrollable. This 'control' attitude results in an 'order fetish.' People become obsessed with mowing and grooming their lawns and obsessed with neatness. People living in contemporary society are split beings divided against themselves. Our Eurocentric society is wounded. Society does not want to feel pain. Therefore, society denies history, and hides its collective head in the sand. We must reintegrate what we have taken apart and love the thing we fear.