James Broughton > Quotes

“It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.”
― James Broughton

“If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.”
― James Broughton

“Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.”
― James Broughton

“Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.”
― James Broughton

“I have been invaded by my own secrets and I must try to find out how to live with them.”
― James Broughton, The androgyne journal

“Shame is no longer relevant.”
― James Broughton, The androgyne journal

“Behind me on the road through the wasteland lies the corpse of an imprisoned child.”
― James Broughton, The androgyne journal

“Have men always been terrified of their true nature? Is all history a record of their denials of themselves?”
― James Broughton, The androgyne journal

“How do you look upon other men as astonishing organisms? Only by so regarding yourself.”
― James Broughton, The androgyne journal

“They seemed to be locked behind built-in notions and no-nos, unaware of the mystery living through them or of the dance of illusion surrounding them.”
― James Broughton, The androgyne journal

“Why am I really here? To hide myself away or to burst open?”
― James Broughton, The androgyne journal

“What lurks in my shadow that the Sun does not reach?”
― James Broughton, The androgyne journal

“If all that a stone is expected to be is the stone that it is, why isn't a man expected to be the kind of man that he is instead of someone's idea of what man he should be?”
― James Broughton, The androgyne journal

“Men fear joy too much, fear their instincts. Fear a surrender to their feelings. Fear loving themselves in others and loving others in themselves. Fear loving their true gods.”
― James Broughton, The androgyne journal

“Here one is expected to endure, to be both warrior and peacebringer, to be lover and savior and poet and friend. Here one is to be dedicated to the service of enlightening.”
― James Broughton, The androgyne journal

“I felt in holy vibration to things around me”
― James Broughton, The androgyne journal

“True delicacy is not a fragile thing.”
― James Broughton

“Everything has always been here one way or another. So it must know what it's doing. And since I am part of this everything, a good part of me must be all right just the way it is, and the way it's doing it.”
― James Broughton, The androgyne journal