
Living Loving and Learning

You, if you are a loving person, will rule words and not allow words to rule you. You will tell yourself what this word means only after you find out by experience what it means; not by believing what people have told you it means.
Leo Buscaglia PhD • Living Loving and Learning
…humanity has an essential function in the universe—in the macro-micro ranges of the great design scenario and its realization in time. An intuition is dawning in us of the integrity and immortality of the individual. Awareness is terminable, but knowledge is eternal. The brain is temporal; the mind, eternal. Being aware and apprehending are tempor
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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
We think much less than what we know. We know much less than what we love. We love much less than what there is. And to this precise extent, we are much less than what we are.
Leo Buscaglia PhD • Living Loving and Learning
All of these people are using only their eyes to see what is essential, and the eye is really the most inaccurate, the most inconsistent, and the most prejudicial organ we have in the body.
Leo Buscaglia PhD • Living Loving and Learning
“When you cease expecting, you have all things.” If you go around doing your thing without expectation, then you already have everything you need. If they do give you something in return, you take it with open arms. It should always come as a surprise.
Leo Buscaglia PhD • Living Loving and Learning
I’m talking about a person who loves himself as being someone who realizes that you can only give away what you have, and so you damned well better work at getting something. You want to be the most educated, the most brilliant, the most exciting, the most versatile, the most creative individual in the world, because then you can give it away; and
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Finally, what is essential is not only to take from life, but it is essential that you put something back into it.
Leo Buscaglia PhD • Living Loving and Learning
At every moment you choose yourself, but do you choose your self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you may built many ‘I s.’ But in only one of them is there congruence between the elector and the elected, only one which you will never find until you have excluded all those superficial feelings and possibilities of being
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