Weekend With Darrell Calkins Quotes

“Listen and look long at beauty that compels you, spontaneously engage what naturally calls to you…this is how we recover our true personal values.”
― Darrell Calkins

“The divine is a mystery, so the impulse to really discover, like a child, has to be the core response to anything.”
― Darrell Calkins

“The greatest challenge that exists in life, in anyone’s life, is that of sustaining a child’s fascination and love for life itself while being bombarded, infiltrated and violated by every possible reason and excuse not to do so. Ultimately, nothing really matters more or has more meaning than a child lost in overwhelming joy and gratitude for a single moment…the all-bodies recognition/revelation that something like Heaven does exist on Earth, right now. Nothing, that is, except for the same thing in an adult.

You can reduce and compress all the greatest lives, philosophies, religions, art, science, literature, all of humanity’s best and most sophisticated knowledge into this single idea. Something like, “Can you hold this through time and space?”
― Darrell Calkins

“If you ever get a single wish from a genie, wish that what you know you should do and what you really have fun doing become one and the same. Whatever grand vision you may have, for you, those you love, or all of humanity and beyond, it becomes attainable there. Indeed, when these two become one, you yourself become the genie.”
― Darrell Calkins, Re:

“Real giving, clean, humble, precise, requires at least some anonymity. You do your job, and you’re not going to be paid for it. That’s the point in a way; you were already paid for it...Greatness, if you want to shoot for that, is the ability to do this and not have resentment or any other dis-ease accumulate.”
― Darrell Calkins, Re:

“A stone can be used for building a house, blocking a road, or killing someone. The same is true for any idea.”
― Darrell Calkins

“Perhaps the best we can do is to work to uphold the human virtues and qualities we most value, even in the face of everyone’s cynicism, skepticism and distrust, including our own.”
― Darrell Calkins, Re:

“If you sustain your balance and intention, everything, including things unimaginable, arrive at the appropriate time and place.”
― Darrell Calkins

“Luck comes when you bend to the requirements of reality.”
― Darrell Calkins

“One does not find freedom or enact responsibility by surrendering to another’s conceptualization of these ideas.”
― Darrell Calkins

“One’s soul is made up of the unity of conscience and what compels you. That is, at the core, there is already a devotional relationship between these two. We just need to realize that and give them both the freedom to do what they wish.”
― Darrell Calkins

“Our greatest joys and inspirations are usually found behind our fears. The trick is just to find fun in the force of Nature, wherever it manifests.”
― Darrell Calkins

“If you want to know what you really value, look at where and how you spend your time.”
― Darrell Calkins

“Make a bigger deal of things…urgently passionate…more vulnerable, less hesitant…subtle, efficient…more interesting, independent choices.”
― Darrell Calkins

“We need specific, frequent rituals that plug us back into recalling, for lack of a better phrase, the meaning of life. Such rituals can be anything in which we stop, feel and look clearly at what we love and value most, or even simpler – emptying out everything in the way of those.”
― Darrell Calkins

“An initial perception or impulse has an infinite number of directions it can go.”
― Darrell Calkins

“A state of grace is when everything imperfect disappears, leaving just stripped-down harmony. One is left empty, with nothing except a fluid open sensation, similar to becoming the sound from a tuning fork piercing through space.”
― Darrell Calkins

“This is where we can find the greatest relief and joy everyday: falling under thought, anxiety, worry and all forms of me, into stillness; losing oneself in compelling engagements that transcend ambition, strategy, self-gain and self-consciousness.”
― Darrell Calkins

“The pace and number of imagined obligations is neither from earth (nature’s demands) nor from heaven (Nature’s callings). So, they are synthetic and separated from both. The longer and deeper one invests in this synthetic process, the more exhausted and anguished one’s essential spirit becomes.”
― Darrell Calkins

“Now, what am I here for, again?’ There’s genuine humility, and courage, in that question.”
― Darrell Calkins

“It is important to understand that the experience of joy and grace, as well as contentment and salvation, is not arrived at by the elimination of conflict, but through one’s precision of movement within it.”
― Darrell Calkins

“Progress and accomplishment with anything and everything depend on how much quality one brings to the show. What makes for quality, if one breaks it down, is spectrum and depth of virtue.”
― Darrell Calkins

“Intuitive perception will mostly come through very short-term incoming revelation–when we forget about ourselves.”
― Darrell Calkins

“Sustainable serenity, joy and fulfillment demand greater spiritual virtuosity, which is only found through deeper integration of conscience into the mix of one’s core intent.”
― Darrell Calkins

“Anguish – discontentment, stress, anxiety to profound sorrow, rage, despair…the experts who deal with these problems all point to three key factors that reduce these for everyone: creativity, service and physicality.”
― Darrell Calkins