Top 15 Eugene J. Martin Quotes

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They came, they looked, they walked
their eyes wide open
they didn’t see
because their minds were closed Their eyes wide open
they didn’t know they couldn’t see
because their minds were closed;
so they looked, and left.

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.

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.

Truth rides best In that which looks ridiculous.

Rather than programming children as if they were computers, parents should be something like art instructors. Because life is like a clump-of-clay, you can’t make it into an expression of beauty, unless you take it into your hands. While sprinkling their lives with painful and playful diversions, people wait their lives miserably into old age, for the skills to live-life, to–come as did life- itself.

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.

Truth is so large OR people’s minds are so small that they’re only able to nibble on the edges – and when growth brings them to the area where they can feed on truth itself, as they move in and eat of the seed, there they become truth.

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

Having a sincere desire to want growth does not mean at that point you are committing yourself to growth.

'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.

There are lesser people not for what they are, but for why they are.

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

People fight not because they disagree,but because they don’t know they agree.

Being able to communicate with someone doesn’t necessarily mean that you understand them.