Tom Hoffman > Quotes

“The moment you chose to sacrifice your life was the moment you saved it. Rather funny when you think about it.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“you are always my true friend, and in this world true friends are what matter above all else.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Thirteenth Monk

“First, you may cause no harm to any living creature. All living things have the sacred life force within them. You will come to understand that the physical form of a creature makes no difference, and their behavior, whether you perceive it as good or bad, makes no difference either.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“You are certainly aware by now there are no bad events. There are only events where the goodness within goes unrecognized by the creature experiencing it.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Thirteenth Monk

“The most valuable gifts in life often arrive in very strange packages.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“Every atom, every molecule, and every bouncing marble is exactly where it should be at every moment in time.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“All chaos is order misunderstood.” –Alexander Pope”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“Blindly reaching out for his bottle of Madame Beffy’s Headache Tonic, he knocked over a vase filled with glass marbles. They fell to the floor with a great clatter. As he watched them bouncing and skittering across the floor, he had an unexpected thought. The wild, chaotic path of the marbles was not really chaotic at all. Each marble was precisely following the known laws of physical motion. He was not witnessing chaos, but order and perfection. Each marble was exactly where it should be at every moment in time.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“A single act of kindness can ripple across your world with a life of its own, across the fabric of space and time until it has altered beyond recognition the world you know. Treat all living creatures with kindness and respect.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Thirteenth Monk

“There’s a clock in my room with two silver hands, Moving so slowly, it’s hard to understand, How the time is flying by. There’s a tree on my street, tall and grand, Growing so slowly, it’s hard to understand, How the time is flying by. Two silver hands won’t slow down, Time is a river, and love is to be found While the time is flying by.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“She made raspberry pie again but told me not to talk to the tree. She said she didn’t know if it was bad or not and it was best to stay away from things you don’t understand. I don’t want to stay away but I don’t want to be a sneak when Mama said not to.   Clara”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“It was overwhelming, and a feeling inside him grew – a palpable, almost physical connection to everything, as if the entire universe was somehow inside him, or his physical body was composed of all the stars and planets and galaxies.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“We meet ourselves time and time again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.” – Carl Jung”
― Tom Hoffman, Orville Mouse and the Puzzle of the Shattered Abacus

“All things that exist are made solely of energy.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“There is a reason for everything, even if we don’t understand it now.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Thirteenth Monk

“All the events in my life are tied together by invisible strings.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“If we have more happy memories than sad ones, I believe we are doing quite well in this uncertain world of ours.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“How marvelous. I do believe there is a glimmer of hope that one day you might become a fine scientist.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“I could sit safely in this chair forever, but where would that get me?”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“the universe is infinite in size and infinite in depth. It is made up of dreams within dreams, worlds within worlds, and selves within selves. There are more forces at work here than you can know, but that knowledge is for another day.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“It was overwhelming, and a feeling inside him grew – a palpable, almost physical connection to everything, as if the entire universe was somehow inside him, or his physical body was composed of all the stars and planets and galaxies. He had never before experienced such a sensation. It was a feeling of absolute bliss. When it had passed, he thought, “Perhaps such a feeling as that is something the universe might care about.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“I have no choice. I have loved you always. I can’t let you go. I can’t.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“There’s a clock in my room with two silver hands, Moving so slowly, it’s hard to understand, How the time is flying by.   There’s a tree on my street, tall and grand, Growing so slowly, it’s hard to understand, How the time is flying by.   Two silver hands won’t slow down, Time is a river, and love is to be found While the time is flying by.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“There was once a bunny who lived by the ocean. Every day he would stroll along the beach and pick up thoughts which had washed ashore. He would find them in shells, under rocks, and sometimes even tangled up in seaweed. "Oh, this is a good one,” he would say, “We see chaos, but if we look carefully, if we look beneath the chaos, we find order and perfection." And into his bucket the thought would go. When the bunny had reached a ripe old age he gathered all the thoughts together and placed them carefully into a large silver cauldron heated by the fires of life. Using a straw broom, he stirred them thoroughly, and as he was stirring he listened carefully. Much to his surprise he heard the ocean singing a wordless song of incomparable beauty. The bunny closed his eyes and said, “Ah, it was all worth it.”

The Blue Monk stood up. “We will sing for you now, Edmund. It is the ocean’s wordless song of incomparable beauty. It is the song of the universe, the song of your past, the song of your future.”

Edmund’s eyes were still closed when he heard the first Blue Monk sing.”
― Tom Hoffman

“At this very moment in time, the content of her letter was a cloud of infinite possibility. The letter could say whatever he wished it to say.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Thirteenth Monk

“I am never wrong, sir. I am a man of science.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“Above all else, do not lose hope again.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring

“The universe is old beyond our comprehension.”
― Tom Hoffman, The Eleventh Ring