Quotes from Robert Lloyd

Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.

Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, When honor and affection fail.

The hour has come to leave for the meeting place where I show him my face. He shall see the dark fire of my eyes and hear the wild wind in my voice. He will feel my presence full of stars, scanning his soul, and he shall know my raw power in his bones. I go to the meeting place where he will surrender to my fierce energy. The dancing, brooding passion goes in the cloak of night to where the human dares not go, but must. I am his destiny and his death, and he knows not my name.

Seen through the eyes of Arab alchemists, or Persian mystics, the earliest Greek philosophers weren't just thinkers or rationalists. They were links in an initiatory succession

We focus so much on what the five senses tell us, and on what we want, and on how to use our will to create what we want, that we forget there is another side to our nature. This

When a person accepts the call of individuation to grow in self-knowledge, his or her ego is pregnant with the desire for gnosis. It is as if that person's ego is the womb for the conception, gestation, and birth of the Self. In

We cut ourselves off from our own roots, the roots of our being, and the very laws of our human nature. This one-sided focus puts us, today, in grave danger, because the violation of our own laws of nature brings about individual and social catastrophes.

The deep truths of the soul's origin, fall, and path of return can only be communicated by way of a full body-mind experience of peace, desire, terror, grief, acceptance, and total commitment. Eliade

Abandon the search for God and the creation and other matters of a similar sort. Look for him by taking yourself as the starting point. Learn who it is within you who makes everything his own and says, "My God, my mind, my thought, my soul, my body." Learn the sources of sorrow, joy, love, hate… . If you carefully investigate these matters you will find him in yourself.

I observe that humans are far too possessive about their ideas, as if ideas would have no existence if they didn't think them. Well,, let me tell you, as a dog I know for sure that I am visited by ideas all the time, and I have never once thought one into existence. Humans don't understand ideas. They think their brain makes them.

The guiding self shows intentionality and intelligence; but it is as if the intentionality and intelligence is a phenomenon that only appears when an observing ego notices a kind of behind-the-scenes design to the multiplicity of affects, dreams, visions, and patterns of behaviors. Thus, the intentionality of the guiding self may be likened to a consciousness in potential because it depends upon being perceived by an observing center of existing consciousness—the ego.

Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.

Slow and steady wins the race.