Gazza's Quotes
Updated 26th February, 2011 by Gary
Hipworth
* If you want uncaused happiness don't open any
attachments!
* He who toys with the most ideas, wins
* Is life here right now, or are you here?
* The present moment is the portal to eternity
* The greatest cop-out is to blame human nature for our problems
* We create ourselves so let's stop being amateurs and
become professional life artists
* Amazing things come to those who create
* Life is uncertain and death is certain
* Life is the art of the impossible
* Everything happens for a reason except chaos
* When trust goes, everything goes
* Don't just do something; sit, chat, understand
* Structure determines behaviour so structure your life for an
incredibly adventurous journey and impossible results
* Treasure the hard-fought over the easy-get
* Finding your life purpose won't be easy and won't be quick unless you
always wanted to be a fireman
* Man is everywhere in chains made out of beliefs, fears and brains
* It's a tough gig being a god and a worm subterraneously
* Hell is myself
* Life is paradoxical and therefore words cannot contain it
* You can change your life at any moment, but you might die of
embarrassment
* People who love life never compromise
* The point of no resistance - which is pure bliss - is nowhere and
everywhere
* Dare to be honest with who you are and you will have no
regrets
* Physical security comes from within - moment to moment
* Psychological security is an oxymoron
* A butterfly is free because it doesn't limit itself with ideas about freedom
* There is nothing sacred about the word 'sacred'
* If sheep were intelligent creatures they would have invented a god
with superfine fleece and little brown eyes
* That animal is me without an ego
* It's appallingly tragic to settle for anything less than a life we love, especially
if we think we need money before we can do it
* The meaning of life can be found in a dictionary but surely you want more than
a definition?
* Kill the false idea rather than the person who has been conditioned to believe in
one
* All beliefs are limiting beliefs
* Nothing is as useless as a generalisation or judging someone
* Responsibility is the ability to respond
* Be foolish and ask a silly question and suddenly you are a genius
* The only time I get a bit upset is when someone points a loaded gun at my
head
* Humans are evolution's impossible creature so why
not be the impossible
creature?
* Leaders make their own paths out of nothing
* Planet earth should be called planet mirth
* Dogs are enlightened beings and we are their disciples
* It takes incredible courage to live with one's mortality every day but it makes
life worth living
* Life is so absurd that it is way beyond weird or ridiculous
* Evolution's Ridiculously Impossible Creation stands for 'ERIC' and the name
ERIC derives from Old Norse, meaning 'eternal ruler' or 'one
ruler' or 'ever powerful'...
* The quickest way to find out who your true friends are is to ask them for some
money
* Nature is not the slightest bit interested in concepts
* The traditional medical cure for prostate cancer is worse than the disease so I
will find an alternative way, thank you very much!
* When you shoot the messenger, you shoot yourself too
* If I was granted one wish it would be to come back as my dog when I
die
* Ask not for whom the bell tolls because it is probably a false alarm
* What came first, you or being born? If it was being born, then who are
you?
* DEATH means 'Dreaded Enemy Awakens True Hero'
* Either-or-itus is the mental disease that afflicts most of the people on this
planet but the sun shines on everyone
* Maybe I am not the centre of the universe? Maybe there is no centre
anywhere?
* I think I am a thinker, therefore I am and I suffer
* I was born a blank slate because I can't remember coming out of the womb and saying
'gidday everyone'.
* To learn is to make msistake after misstake after mistakee until you get it
wright right
* Human nature is an oxymoron
* I lost my wholeness the day I believed I was a separate thing
* Existence precedes thought
* How can you buy or sell a free, wild creature or the warmth of the sun?
* If you treat this life as the only one you are likely to get, you will live every
day as though it was your last
* Every moment is a new moment in eternity but the human mind is looking
elsewhere
* Retirement is the dumbest thing that man ever invented except for school
uniforms, national anthems, wars and the idea of the ego
* I hang around hang-gliders for my inspiration and multiple abrasions
* Gary means 'gardener' so I try to do some gardening once every 50
years
* Fear and its consequences can be eliminated forever by jumping off a
cliff
* People are at their happiest and best when they are self-regulating
individuals
* You can create anything you really desire, but not everything because your life is
finite
* You are not what makes me happy or sad; I do it to myself
* Would you rather I sacrifice my happiness so you can be happy? Then who's the
selfish one?
* Attack the system with gusto, never the individual
* Your life is the master and your business is the servant
* Selling is sharing when you like each other
* Waste has many hidden faces
* Open minds, open books, open society, open planet
* Thought is a tool for living creatively, not who we are
* Why do we go to school if not to learn how to create what we want?
* Why go to school if not to find out who we really are?
* TEAPOT means To Enjoy All Passing Of Time
* Environment is us
* One earth, one human race; so where's the problem?
* Reality (Truth, God) is unknowable, and cannot be given to another
* A terrorist to me is a martyr to the other side when I look down from the
helicopter at 2000 metres
* A concept is not the real thing, but a temporary, limited, fixed label
* A label is a chain made out of mental letters that is vastly stronger than any
metal fetters
* Doubt everything, including your own independent existence
* Dogma of any kind makes you a slave, so don't be brainwashed by any dog
Ma
* Our ability to learn is our second-best best asset; the best is
unlearning
* Discussion and concussion are close relatives
* Memory starts with 'me' and ends in suffering
* The present moment cannot be thought about
* If you are curious about the root cause of suffering, find the
answer to the question, "What is the I"?
* You and I are directly responsible for the present psychological chaos and
technological wizardry on this planet and so let's switch the
focus the other way and see what happens
* Don't say sorry - just stay awake next time
* Understanding the mind's limitations is the beginning of
serenity
* The true meaning of Liberation is to be free from your reactions to past
conditioning
* Awareness is the beginning of freedom
* Truth is free but cannot be bought for any price
* The human brain is not capable of grasping reality as a whole so it
invented concepts and stored them in memory and then promptly
forget that they are not the real thing
* Accumulating more and more knowledge is OK if you want to be knowledgeable, but not
if you want inner peace and freedom
* When you are distracted by details you lose your connection with reality
* There is no forever, because everything fades, so eternity must be now or
never
* Is a sustainable economy more important than a compassionate species?
* You can experience psychological death today and then get on with your real life
now
* Don't get involved in solving symptoms, go for the root of roots!
* The mind is a social product so you can step outside it any moment by becoming
aware of your natural environment
* Give the ego enough hope and it will hang around forever
* Comparing and judging is the ego's way of staying alive
* Energy goes where it is wanted and everything is energy
* Representative democracy is the least worst form of government except for
participatory democracy
* When you have the courage to be true to yourself, you become a very dangerous
person
* With one foot in the worldand one foot in eternity, you can eat your cake and bliss
out too
* The problem with perfection is that there is no way to go but down after this
point, so be careful what you strive for
* A barking dog made me react like a darking
bog because I was not aware
* The definition of real courage is to remain seated when they play your national
anthem
* Premier, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you riff raff, kindly be
seated
* To expand my awareness, that is the only question and the only freedom worth
having
* There is nothing new under the sun except NOW
* Have you found out for yourself if there is a soul or a permanent
anything?
* A handshake is to a germ what a free shuttle-bus is to a tourist
* On the other hand you have a few million germs too
* A primal scream is the shortest distance between two creatures
* Ego is the longest distance between two people
* An enlightened person simply knows he or she is a frightened animal with
a mortality problem
* Are you a noun or a verb, stationary or moving?
* The homeless need accommodation but they want loving homes
* Prisoner of fear, let go of my rear
* When you take in the big and the small, you avoid a great fall
* If you want to be my friend, learn to walk in your own moccasins first
* If your exhaust pipe goes cold, expect a parking ticket
* Existence is impossible
* The poor need clarity, not charity
* EGO means Endless Growth Obsession, which in the long run is not sustainable for
the economy, or the environment, or the individual
or the entertainment value of this quote
* In the whole of the Constitution of Australia, there is not one joke
* The only way a person can be a 'lone wolf' and survive is to pretend to be a
sheep
* AND is more, OR is poor
* AND is a superb connector forward and spelt backwards it is a
blueprint for life so what else does one need?
* Is the mind part of the solution or part of the problem?
* There are no good or bad reactions, just the past intruding on the
present
* We always want the other person to change
* Can anyone see anything that's separate, hanging suspended in a universe of its
own?
* Is there any such thing as psychological growth or are we really after more
awareness ?
* Unfinished business is the life-blood of worry
* It is the unknown which is the mystery and the magic of life
* We don't come into this world with a talking head, or a name like Fred
* It can be embarrassing to forget someone's name but I have forgotten who
I am so what's the problem?
* The 'me' is a bundle of memories, a self-image, a description, words,
symbols
* The thing that makes life so excruciatingly miraculous and special is the fact that
it is fleeting
* To play and live in the moment is such a wonderful thing that it should not
just be left to children and dogs
* It astonishes me what can come out of a group of people sitting together with no
leader
* The space of the possible is all around us but we block it out with fear and
doubt
* No one can ignore their interpersonal responsibilities on their own
path to freedom without paying a heavy price
* I feel good when I help someone else so I am being selfish and so I must not help
anyone else feel good either in case they help
someone else to feel good and become selfish too
* Trust is moment-to-moment if you want to stay alive
* A robot is 100% reliable because it has no freedom to be anything else
* Who am I when I am in a deep sleep; not dead, not Fred, and not
thinking?
* A process like electricity has no centre and when I am current where is my
centre?
* Look at all the beautiful beetles; where do they all come from?
* A beetle is a living jewel that cannot be bought for any price
* It's OK to play Guru, but if you start thinking you are a
Guru...
* It's the chase that makes life worth living, and enemies worth
forgiving
* What's in it for everyone?
* If you are a round peg in a square hole you need to think outside the square and
inside the peg
* Your life cannot be postponed
* An animal with a fragile ego and a long memory is a scary thought
* A bird song is never right or wrong
* Retirement is not an option
* I am a free range being and the universe is my playground