Allan J. Hamilton > Quotes

“I was drawn to horses as if they were magnets. It was in my blood. I must have inherited from my grandfather a genetic proclivity toward the equine species. Perhaps there's a quirk in the DNA that makes horse people different from everyone else, that instantly divides humanity into those who love horses and the others, who simply don't know.”
― Allan J. Hamilton, Zen Mind, Zen Horse: The Science and Spirituality of Working with Horses

“To be content, horse people need only a horse, or, lacking that, someone else who loves horses with whom they can talk. It was always that way with my grandfather. He took me places just so we could see horses, be near them. We went to the circus and the rodeo at Madison Square Garden. We watched parades down Fifth Avenue. Finding a horse, real or imagined, was like finding a dab of magic potion that enlivened us both. Sometimes I'd tell my grandfather about all the horses in my eleborate dreams. He'd lean over, smile, and assure me that, one day, I'd have one for real. And if my grandfather, my Opa, told me something was going to come true, it always did.”
― Allan J. Hamilton, Zen Mind, Zen Horse: The Science and Spirituality of Working with Horses

“In the final analysis, superstitions, omens, and intuitions are the reflections of a conscious effort on the part of an individual to detect the subtle signals sent to us from the natural world. If we are convinced that the life and matter around us are mute, then we are confined to the silence of the scientifically concrete. If we are open to subtlety, then the world resonates with significance.”
― Allan J. Hamilton

“Horses are “divine mirrors,” reflecting back our inner emotional truth.”
― Allan J. Hamilton, Zen Mind, Zen Horse: The Science and Spirituality of Working with Horses

“The one who removes a mountain,
Begins by carrying away small stones.”
― Allan J. Hamilton, Zen Mind, Zen Horse: The Science and Spirituality of Working with Horses

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” Mahatma Gandhi”
― Allan J. Hamilton, Lead with Your Heart: Lessons from a Life with Horses

“Never forget that all-important, essential, large, heaping spoonful of luck. What one is to become is largely predetermined by forces beyond our control. We don’t choose who our parents will be. We can’t dictate when and if one of them will leave us or die. We can’t shape the values that are evidenced by the grown-ups around us. Yet all of these may have profound effects on our character, and in the end, that character may dictate our destiny. So I do not hold that we make our own destiny. We ride it. Wherever it’ll lead us, to wherever we are supposed to end up.”
― Allan J. Hamilton, The Scalpel and the Soul: Encounters with Surgery, the Supernatural, and the Healing Power of Hope