Lou Marinoff > Quotes

“El humor, los sentimientos, las ideas y las creencias cambian. Las relaciones, las carreras, las reglas e incluso las personas cambian. Los ciclos de nacimiento, vida y muerte en el ámbito humano y en el resto de la naturaleza están regidos por el cambio. Las estaciones, el clima y la evolución de nuestro planeta son siempre fruto del cambio.”
― Lou Marinoff, El poder del Tao

“A big thing can be simply the sum of small things.”
― Lou Marinoff, Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems

“Si tienes el coraje suficiente para recuperar la inocencia y dejar volar la imaginación, también tú tendrás al dragón como amigo”
― Lou Marinoff, El poder del Tao

“And yet if every desire were satisfied as soon as it arose how would men occupy their lives, how would they pass the time? Imagine this race transported to a Utopia where everything grows of its own accord and turkeys fly around ready-roasted, where lovers find one another without any delay and keep one another without any difficulty: in such a place some men would die of boredom or hang themselves, some would fight and kill one another, and thus they would create for themselves more suffering than nature inflicts on them as it is.” —ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER”
― Lou Marinoff, Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems

“hacer lo correcto conduce a la felicidad; lo erróneo, a la infelicidad. Esto es absolutamente independiente de quién seas, la edad que tengas y el lugar donde estés. Lo decreta el Camino.”
― Lou Marinoff, El poder del Tao

“The opposite of passionate love is not hatred; it is indifference.”
― Lou Marinoff, Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems

“With increasing frequency in recent times, people have confused privileges with rights, objectivity with subjectivity, wishing with willing, wanting with needing, price with value, affluence with fulfillment, reality with appearance, and sameness with equality. Not to mention dis-ease with disease.”
― Lou Marinoff , The Big Questions: How Philosophy Can Change Your Life

“Quien considera el mundo como considera la fortuna de su propio cuerpo puede gobernar el mundo. A quien ama el mundo como ama a su propio cuerpo puede confiársele el mundo.   Tao Te Ching, poema 13”
― Lou Marinoff, El poder del Tao

“People looking to take offense will always find something to take it at, but then they’re the ones with the problem.”
― Lou Marinoff, Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems

“Your happiness does not depend so much on what kind of body you have, but on how well you take care of it.”
― Lou Marinoff, The Power of Tao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony

“Lao Tzu wrote: “Know the personal, yet keep to the impersonal: Accept the world as it is. Then the Tao will be luminous inside you, and you will return to the Uncarved Block.” There is so much philosophy packed into this verse that it summarizes central teachings about happiness from three great ancient traditions: those not only from Taoism, but also from Buddhism and Stoicism”
― Lou Marinoff, The Power of Tao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony

“Manando del Tao, el consejo del I Ching apela a nuestro mejor yo, despertando y confiriendo poderes a nuestro Sabio Interior. Si”
― Lou Marinoff, El poder del Tao

“Για να είναι κανείς ανθρώπινος, πρέπει να συναναστρέφεται με ανθρώπους.”
― Lou Marinoff, Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems

“if you just need to talk to someone about your circumstances in order to make sense of them, or in order to discern their meaning, purpose and value in your life, then a philosopher may be the right helper for you.”
― Lou Marinoff, Therapy for the Sane: How Philosophy Can Change Your Life

“You can wander around these outlet shops for hours, accumulating clothing and accessories until your credit cards melt down. But you will not find one single shop that sells anything for the mind or the soul. There are no books. There is no music. There is no art. There is no poetry. The outlets are a spiritual wasteland.”
― Lou Marinoff, The Power of Tao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony

“I seemed to be the only one who noticed, the only one who was concerned that doing the right thing for the wrong reason doesn’t make you a person of integrity.”
― Lou Marinoff, Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems

“Showing a photograph of a brain lit-up in a certain way, and claiming that this “explains” samadhi, is like showing a picture of a tree lit-up in a certain way, and claiming that this “explains” Christmas.”
― Lou Marinoff, Therapy for the Sane: How Philosophy Can Change Your Life

“For the first time in human history, a significant percentage of heterosexual males are unable to become sexually aroused by women and need drugs or vacuum pumps to help them do nature’s work. Why?”
― Lou Marinoff, The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony

“Lo que une a la humanidad no son las deidades supremas ni las almas divinas: es nuestra capacidad común de convertirnos en seres que han despertado por completo a la conciencia.”
― Lou Marinoff, El ABC de la felicidad

“It lies within your power to choose wisely or foolishly. If you choose wisely, you are acting in conformity with Dao and your result will be good. This, in turn, will make you happy. If you choose foolishly, you are acting contrary to Dao and your result will be bad. This, in turn, will make you unhappy. These are laws of nurture. Just like laws of nature, they are woven into the very fabric of existence and cannot be contravened.”
― Lou Marinoff, The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony

“La filosofía de Buda dice: este momento, que usted ha decidido por voluntad propia, es fruto de todos los momentos pasados que también ha decidido. Es una visión profunda que confiere mucho poder. Usted puede cambiar lo que piensa, dice y hace, y por ende su vida, en este preciso instante.”
― Lou Marinoff, El ABC de la felicidad

“budismo, en cambio, no depende de ningún poder externo, de ningún alma inmortal, de ningún mundo sobrenatural, de ninguna intervención divina. En lugar de ello, moviliza recursos que todos los seres humanos llevamos en nuestro interior. Ciertamente, el budismo tiene maestros y sutras que arrojan luz sobre el camino medio. Pero ese camino ya está en nosotros, y el budismo sólo nos despierta a él.”
― Lou Marinoff, El ABC de la felicidad

“En el sistema de Buda uno decide activamente su futuro en virtud de lo que piensa, dice y hace en el momento presente. Esto es liberador, al menos para quienes están dispuestos a asumir la responsabilidad de su vida y su sufrimiento.”
― Lou Marinoff, El ABC de la felicidad

“Cuida el final como cuidas el principio y no cosecharás el fracaso. LAOZI”
― Lou Marinoff, Más Platón y menos Prozac

“By uniting your mind with nature, you will experience the inner transformation that renders your thoughts radiant and your heart benevolent, surrounding you with an aura of purest golden light. When others bathe in it, they will be transformed as well.”
― Lou Marinoff, The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony

“From nuclear families to communities of nations, others without whom we cannot live get on our nerves at times, becoming sources of everything from mild irritation to deadly conflict. Balancing the tension between individual and group is more of an art than a science, and Dao manages it with greater artistry than any other system yet discovered or devised.”
― Lou Marinoff, The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony

“Every civilization rests on these four pillars: marriage, family, society, and polity. If all four remain solid, then most people will know happiness and their civilization will flourish. But if any of these pillars cracks or crumbles, people—-perhaps very many people—-will become unhappy and the edifice of their civilization will run the risk of toppling.”
― Lou Marinoff, The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony