Eugene J. Martin quotes

People have learned to escape Reality very well but too often lose their way back. (Eugene J. Martin)
Can someone eat the fruit that comes from the tree of action that grows from the seeds of your mind?
Eugene J. Martin
If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences we call reality springs.
Eugene J. Martin
While traveling our separated roads through life, we are also either road signs or potholes on the roads of others.
Eugene J. Martin
The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.
Eugene J. Martin
There are opposing forces in all living things. My work reflects this and stirs up a contrast of emotions in the viewer... perception versus annoyance. To the viewer who has reached that level of awareness, my work is no longer abstract, but very real.
Eugene J. Martin
When making a commitment, make it not to someone, but of someone to yourself.
Eugene J. Martin
All things – great, small, good, bad, friend, enemy-should be a lesson, not an obsession.
Eugene J. Martin
One tool that is used most and has the greatest misuse of power is looks, and another tool that is used least and has the least desire for power is wisdom.
Eugene J. Martin
Beware of the possible reason some people are honestly down and out - it is because they tried to copy the many who are superficially doing well.
Eugene J. Martin
Rather than studying the laws of cause and effect, people spend their lives being the effect and running from the cause. (Eugene J. Martin)
Passion is a disguise for attachment – sometimes as hate and other times as love.
Eugene J. Martin
Vanity begins and ends with deception, so the reason people put interesting and attractive clothes on their bodies is perhaps the same for having uninteresting and unattractive expressions on their faces.
Eugene J. Martin
It's past time that people get involved in thinking – now that the computers can take over the field of memory.
Eugene J. Martin
Because of guilt there is painful diversion; because of greed there is playful diversion; because of grass there is pleasurable diversion.
Eugene J. Martin
One solution to one problem makes two problems.
Eugene J. Martin
Being able to communicate with someone doesn't necessarily mean that you understand them.
Eugene J. Martin
Because of subconscious guilt, people spend half their lives in self-punishment and the other half taking on more guilt.
Eugene J. Martin
Conflict is necessary for growth. But too often conflict becomes a haven for the soul. Until one day, the soul can no longer free itself. In real growth the soul learns to fly rather than having the ego inflated with praise from accomplishments as if it were a balloon. Only because it buys time, do we develop a strong and protective ego. This is the early stage in the soul's evolution, until such time when the soul hatches out of its shell, which is the ego, into a new world in which there is incomparable beauty.
Eugene J. Martin
In order to stay clear of pain, we must know and know why we feel best while having pain.
Eugene J. Martin
Rather than programming children as if they were computers, parents should be something like art instructors. Because life is like a clump-of-clay, you can't make it into an expression of beauty, unless you take it into your hands. While sprinkling their lives with painful and playful diversions, people wait their lives miserably into old age, for the skills to live-life, to–come as did life- itself. (Eugene J. Martin)
Things differ because of the time in which they exist. In time, things opposite will reverse themselves. Also, judging does the opposite of clearing it confuses. Now, if any of this you judged to be non-sense, then perhaps it's not so obvious that judging is the worst escort perception can have.
Eugene J. Martin
MUSEUM They came, they looked, they walked their eyes wide open they didn't see because their minds were closed Their eyes wide open they didn't know they couldn't see because their minds were closed; so they looked, and left.
Eugene J. Martin
There can be danger in stretching the body if it's not done properly. The same is true with the imagination and the chemistry which may give the imagination elasticity, but the soul gives a direction.
Eugene J. Martin
Truth rides best In that which looks ridiculous.
Eugene J. Martin