
Living Loving and Learning

“What Is Essential Is Invisible to the Eye.”
Leo Buscaglia PhD • Living Loving and Learning
“Thinking five to six thoughts at once, we train to keep chronically tense. Everywhere we find training in tenseness. Nowhere do we find training in ease and happiness. Poor man, created to befriend all creatures, does not even befriend himself.”
Leo Buscaglia PhD • Living Loving and Learning
All paths are the same. They lead nowhere. They are paths going through the brush or into the brush or under the brush. Does this path have a heart is the only question. If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn’t, it is of no use.
Leo Buscaglia PhD • Living Loving and Learning
‘Man must see that nothing really is, but that everything is always becoming and changing. Nothing stands still. Everything is being born, growing and dying. The very instant a thing reaches its height, it begins to decline. The law of rhythm is in constant operation. There is no reality. There is no enduring quality, fixity or substantiality in
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Wisdom is the application of knowledge and facts. Wisdom is realizing you know nothing. Wisdom is saying, “My mind is open. Wherever I am, I’m just beginning. There is more to be realized by a hundred-foldthen what I know.” That’s the beginning of wisdom.
Leo Buscaglia PhD • Living Loving and Learning
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable… The purpose of life is to matter—to count, to stand for something, to have it make some difference that we lived at all.
Leo Buscaglia PhD • Living Loving and Learning
“Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.”
Leo Buscaglia PhD • Living Loving and Learning
So what are we not? We are not our mental static. We are not our bodies. We are not our programming. We are not our education. We are not our present mind. We are not our physical selves. We are not our sensations. We are not our perceptions. We are not our power. We are not our present feelings. We are not our present responses. We are, in part,
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So the study of love has brought me to the study of life. To live in love is to live in life, and to live in life is to live in love.