101sharequotes Quotes Topics Famous Occupations Motivation Inspirational Life Love Funny Success Friendship ☰

Alejandro Jodorowsky (Writer)

We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky reality

I say: What you give, you give to yourself; what you do not give, you give up. And this is to say that whatever you do in the world, you do to yourself; and whatever you do not give to the world, you lose. If I keep my knowledge, I lose it.One receives knowledge and gives it. When you give knowledge, you enrich yourself. If you do not give love, you are detracting from yourself. If I begin to help people, if I begin to heal people, I begin to heal. Do you understand? To be a therapist, you have to be a patient. The first thing to do to heal yourself is to heal others. I have one more saying: I do not want anything for myself that I do not want for others.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky love

To transform oneself one must give, but to transform oneself one must also learn. One closes oneself off and does not admit love from another, the tenderness or the help of another. The real leap is learning to receive, which is as difficult as learning to give. And it is necessary to learn to ask for what one needs: justice is to give to oneself what one deserves. This is why the gospels say, Knock and the door will be opened. If I ask for a long life, it is because I have the right to ask for it. If I ask that we will use an energy other than oil, it is because I have the right to ask for it. We have to learn to ask for what is just and to not ask for what it is not necessary to ask.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky love

We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky superstition

The symbolic act of the death of the father is absolutely necessary, but it is also necessary to do it in an intelligent way, with lucidity and without resentment. If you perceive your father in a violent way, it is because you are not killing him: you are asking him to love you because you need it. But if you are able to see him positively, without his pedestal and without your fear, you are no longer begging him to love you in order for you to exist. And this is when you kill him, when you make him fall. But once youve knocked him down, it is necessary to rebuild him and repay him, because fathers have essential value, even if they are monsters: they give us life, they leave their imprint on certain parts of our being, and they allow us to become who we are in a conscious way.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky love

Family hurts us, it is like a trap, it shortens our life, it bothers us psychically and socioculturally, it forces us into a limited level of consciousness, it robs us of our essential self, it inculcates ideas in us that are not our own, and at the moment when we find ourselves in the world, all of this collapses and we have to build a life from scratch. We forgive ourselves because no one is guilty. Generation after generation, each one is victim to the one before. We end up with many centuries of being victims, but in the end you understand that there is no reason for resentment.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky life

I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I dont believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; its from another century, its not for today.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky religion

We need to work in a job that we like and always be peaceful people, to do what we like. We must be what we are and not what they want us to be. To love what we love without obligation, without neurotic knots that we cannot untie. To desire what we want and to create what we are capable of making. To live with a certain prosperity, without wasting. But a prosperity for everyone, not a prosperity based on exploiting others. And, of course, it is necessary to become immortals and for this we have to live as if we were immortals thinking that we have a thousand years more to do what we want but without forgetting that in ten seconds we can die.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky love

When we didnt make the picture, Dan OBannon needed to be interned in a mental institution for two years, suffering because we didnt get to do Dune. And when he came out he wrote the script for Alien. Alien was the reaction to not doing Dune. Who would believe that? But its true!Alejandro Jodorowsky reveals how his Dune inspired alien challanges to get the script published

— Alejandro Jodorowsky men

Share your thoughts on Alejandro Jodorowsky quotes with the community:

Maybe you are looking for Alejandro Jodorowsky quotes, Alejandro Jodorowsky sayings?

Here are quotes most suitable for various topics. In the web you can find use by keywords: quotes Alejandro Jodorowsky Alejandro Jodorowsky quotes Alejandro Jodorowsky sayings Alejandro Jodorowsky famous quotes Alejandro Jodorowsky best quotes