Alejandro Jodorowsky quotes - page 3

We cannot reach the truth, but we can get close to it through beauty. (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
The real leap is learning to receive, which is as difficult as learning to give. View quote
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We forgive ourselves because no one is guilty. Generation after generation, each one is victim to the one before. We end up with many centuries of being victims, but in the end you understand that there is no reason for resentment. View quote
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I say: "What you give, you give to yourself; what you do not give, you give up." And this is to say that whatever you do in the world, you do to yourself; and whatever you do not give to the world, you lose. View quote
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To be born into a family is to be, if I may say it this way, possessed. This possession is transmitted from generation to generation: the enchanted becomes the enchanter in projecting onto his children what was projected onto him-unless an awakening comes to break the cycle. View quote
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We must be what we are and not what they want us to be. View quote
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I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live. View quote
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The first thing I didn't understand was my life. It's a mystery. And today I don't understand economy or politics. I don't know why politics or economy are destroying the world, but I will understand after understanding. View quote
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A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry? View quote
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In Chile, they have no movies. They have awful popular movies. View quote
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My wife is 37 years younger than me. I don't feel the difference. (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited. View quote
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Family hurts us, it is like a trap, it shortens our life, it bothers us psychically and socioculturally, it forces us into a limited level of consciousness, it robs us of our essential self, it inculcates ideas in us that are not our own, and at the moment when we find ourselves in the world, all of this collapses and we have to build a life from scratch. We forgive ourselves because no one is guilty. Generation after generation, each one is victim to the one before. We end up with many centuries of being victims, but in the end you understand that there is no reason for resentment. View quote
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I say: "What you give, you give to yourself; what you do not give, you give up." And this is to say that whatever you do in the world, you do to yourself; and whatever you do not give to the world, you lose. If I keep my knowledge, I lose it. (...) One receives knowledge and gives it. When you give knowledge, you enrich yourself. If you do not give love, you are detracting from yourself. If I begin to help people, if I begin to heal people, I begin to heal. Do you understand? To be a therapist, you have to be a patient. The first thing to do to heal yourself is to heal others. I have one more saying: "I do not want anything for myself that I do not want for others". View quote
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