I leave you the best phrases of Alejandro Jodorowsky, a Chilean artist creator of psychomagic, of Jewish-Ukrainian descent and nationalized French in 1980.
Sometimes it is just simple phrases that make us understand and see things in a totally different way from how we understood them before.
- “Today stop criticizing your body. Accept it as it is without worrying about other people's eyes. They don't love you because you are beautiful. You are beautiful because they love you. "
- “Always do, because if you don't, you will regret it, and if you do and make a mistake, at least you will have learned something. Do not want anything for yourself that is not also for others. Don't be what others want you to be; I know what you are.
- "Sometimes losing is winning and not finding what you are looking for is finding yourself."
- "There is no failure, you simply change your way."
- “There is no greater relief than to begin to be what one is. We are not in the world to realize our parents' dreams, but our own. »
- "Stop defining yourself: grant yourself all the possibilities of being, change paths as many times as necessary."
- "When a flower opens, it is spring all over the world."
- "When you get sick, instead of hating that evil, consider it your teacher."
- "Underneath the disease, there is the prohibition to do something we want or the order to do something we do not want."
- “- Master, when will I be strong? -When you learn not to harm. "
- "I hear what you say in what you don't say."
- «Money is like the Christ; blesses you if you share. »
- «The ego is deaf; deaf and blind. The ego must be tamed. "
- “The family, society, culture, put us in a mold; when we get out of the mold, healing begins and, not only that: you have to do something that you have never done before and the more difficult the better. "
- “If it's not me, who? If not, how? And, if not today, when? "
- «The world is what you think it is; but the one who thinks is not you. "
- «Silence has no limits for me; the limits are set by the word. "
- “Frustration is caused by a society that asks us to be what we are not and blames us for being what we are. Right now, everything is still run by men; the woman is clearly out of balance. To begin with, you have to balance the equality of men and women. "
- “Life is a source of health, but that energy arises only where we focus our attention. This attention must not only be mental but also emotional, sexual and corporal. Power resides neither in the past nor in the future, sites of disease. Health is here, now. "
- «The last living human being threw the last shovelful of dirt on the last dead one. In that very instant, he knew he was immortal; because death only exists in the gaze of the other. "
- "You are a slave to what you baptize with your name."
- "My mistakes were seeds."
- «Listen more to your intuition than to your reason. Words shape reality but they are not. "
- "Even if you have a large family, give yourself a personal territory where no one can enter without your permission."
- «See how we see ourselves, see ourselves and understand that to understand we have to become blind. Do what you are doing your best. »
- «Beauty is the maximum limit to which we can access through language. We cannot reach the truth, but we can approach it through beauty. "
- "The human mind, when faced with another mind more powerful than itself, has a tendency to forget itself."
- «The mind does not conform; is there. Its quality depends on how you use it. "
- "The biggest lie is the ego."
- «When countries crumble and fall, the only thing that remains of them is culture, that is why it is so important. A country without culture is going to disappear. I think you have to dedicate a capital to culture. "
- "Poetry is only love, it transgresses the prohibitions and dares to look directly at the invisible."
- "Happiness is being less anxious every day."
- «When you hesitate between doing and not doing, choose to do. If you are wrong at least you get the experience."
- "One becomes wise only insofar as one goes through his own madness."
- "The word that describes the world is not the world."
- «The truth is never obtained from anyone; you always carry it with you. "
- "I ask the cinema what many Americans ask of psychedelic drugs."
- «What I seek follows me.»
- "Birds born in a cage believe that flying is a disease."
- «Interpreted dreams are not important. The important ones are the lucid ones: when you are and become aware of what you are dreaming about. Art and poetry are also very important. "
- «They tell me I'm a scammer. Well, I am, but a holy con man. "
- «My name is Alejandro Jodorowsky. Better said: they call me Alejandro Jodorowsky. My name is nothing… »
- "Not so fast that you reach death nor so slow that it reaches you."
- "Don't make useless friends."
- «Life is not there to satisfy the desires of the first sloth that appears! Life does not correspond to you except to the extent that you surrender to it and make an effort to overcome your egocentricity. "
- «Do not thank me for what I have given you; It has been given to me for you.
- "I don't like art that divinizes the navel of those who practice it."
- "Not satisfying desires is not suffering, because the wonder is having desires."
- "I don't want anything for myself that isn't for everyone."
- "Do not appropriate anything or anyone."
- "The poetic act must always be positive, go in the direction of construction and not destruction…"
- «I am not going to do the university journey because university study is the death of art. Museums and university studies are the death of art. So, I'm going to go do the art. That later they put me as a mummy in a museum will come; but I'm not going to put anyone in a museum. "
- "Give each word roots in the heart."
- «The brain is a universe in constant expansion and movement. We are in a rational prison that navigates inside a madman. "
- "One does not go to the theater to escape from oneself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are."
- "The bird of the spirit must free itself from the rational cage."
- «Of reality, mysterious, so vast and unpredictable, we only perceive what is filtered through our tiny point of view. Active imagination is the key to a broad vision, it allows us to focus on life from points of view that are not ours, think and feel from different angles. That is true freedom: to be able to get out of oneself, to cross the limits of our small individual world to open up to the universe. "
- "To change the world you need to start with yourself."
- «You think one thing, you want another, you love another, you do something else.»
- "For love, we not only copy the values of our parents, but also their illnesses."
- "If I close my hands, the water runs off."
- "If we take a look at the circumstances that led us to the miracle, we will understand that we were led by an unimaginable force."
- «You only have to acquire the power to help. An art that does not serve to heal is not art. We still have a lot to know about the man himself; it remains a mystery and will probably remain so. "
- «You curse me and I bless you.»
- «Once a week, teach others for free how little or how much you know. What you give them, you give it to yourself. What you don't give them, you take away. »
- "One day we will stop praying and we will vomit flowers."
- "A philosopher who could not walk because he stepped on his beard cut off his feet."
As you have been able to read, Alejandro not only writes on the same topic, but is quite versatile in terms of his ideas expressed in words. Perhaps you agree with many of his phrases, or maybe you do not agree much with his way of seeing things, but what is true is that one of the best ways to open your mind is to know without judging. If you want to know more about him, or read about his works and creations, there are several books published by him that are worth reading. Some of the best sellers are:- Psychomagic manual: tips to heal your life. (2009)
- Metagenealogy (2012)
- Tales from the Underworld (2012)
- Gospels to Heal (2012)
- Psychomagic (2016)
If, on the other hand, you are more cinephile than bibliophile, I leave you here the name of some films directed by Jodorowsky so that you know more about him:
- Fando and Lis (1967)
- The mole (1970)
- The Holy Mountain (1973)
- Holy blood (1989)
- The Rainbow Thief (1990)
- The Dance of Reality (2013)