Eugene J. Martin Quotes

Because of subconscious guilt, people spend half their lives in self-punishment and the other half taking on more guilt.

The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.

'It’s a great tragedy that the ability to act is used to manipulate people, but it is a greater tragedy that people welcome it while sometimes making a phony protest.

If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences we call reality springs.

Conflict is necessary for growth. But too often conflict becomes a haven for the soul. Until one day, the soul can no longer free itself. In real growth the soul learns to fly rather than having the ego inflated with praise from accomplishments as if it were a balloon. Only because it buys time, do we develop a strong and protective ego. This is the early stage in the soul’s evolution, until such time when the soul hatches out of its shell, which is the ego, into a new world in which there is incomparable beauty.

Things differ because of the time in which they exist. In time, things opposite will reverse themselves. Also, judging does the opposite of clearing it confuses. Now, if any of this you judged to be non-sense, then perhaps it’s not so obvious that judging is the worst escort perception can have.

Vanity begins and ends with deception, so the reason people put interesting and attractive clothes on their bodies is perhaps the same for having uninteresting and unattractive expressions on their faces.

There can be danger in stretching the body if it’s not done properly. The same is true with the imagination and the chemistry which may give the imagination elasticity, but the soul gives a direction.

One tool that is used most and has the greatest misuse of power is looks, and another tool that is used least and has the least desire for power is wisdom.

People find it easy to justify their frustration in the struggle to manipulate others, but find it hard to justify the struggle for their own growth.

It’s past time that people get involved in thinking – now that the computers can take over the field of memory.

When making a commitment, make it not to someone, but of someone to yourself.

Americans are simple people with simple interests – The only time they sincerely ask “why” about anything is when they don’t receive their paychecks.

Beware of the possible reason some people are honestly down and out - it is because they tried to copy the many who are superficially doing well.

Because of guilt there is painful diversion; because of greed there is playful diversion; because of grass there is pleasurable diversion.