“Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder, it’s in the heart of the beheld.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Desire is a false flag, a state with borders. To pass from one to another, requires exit and entry.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“The written word is the transmutation of sound to form.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“These words are the product of my environment, the inevitable procession of the world, not separate from the source and yet entirely contributing to it. The words are not me. I am the words.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Quality over quantity, multiplied by infinity.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Restlessness is the sign of restfulness. Rather than fill up with rest, become rest.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“The leaves which have fallen to the ground are no less leaves than those which remain on the branches of the tree. In this way, those who have fallen from the tree of society are no less human than those who remain attached.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“The deepest prayer, like the deepest ocean, contains the greatest amount of pressure.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Let your thoughts be like fruit. Taste them as they ripen, eat them when they have ripened, and throw them out when they have soured.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Every person, no matter their standing, no matter their skill, no matter their genetic makeup, has the capacity to be happy. It is a false belief that some of us can have the bronze version, some of us the silver version and some of us the gold version.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Space is the thing we create when silence is crowded.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“A hammock is a simple tool to end human suffering.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“The right talent in the wrong environment is a modern painting in a Victorian house.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“The most ridiculous phrase in the world is ‘The End’ because it presupposes a continued story.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Love is easy. Loving is difficult.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“You’ll never avoid the big questions, you’ll just pass them by like missed off ramps, knowing that with each one, the answers get further away.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“If you’re going to speak, speak your truth. And speak it beautifully.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“What’s a teacher when there are no students?”
— Asher Luzzatto
“A nice home is just expensive medicine.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“We are all just buying a little peace of quiet.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“What is the difference between discipline and commitment? Commitment is commitment. Discipline is the commitment to commit. When the object of commitment goes away, commitment is left with nothing. When commitment goes away, discipline is left with commitment. Commitment leads to mastery of something external, discipline leads to mastery of the self.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Slowing the mind is not just an end in and of itself. Slowing the mind is akin to sharpening a knife. A sharp knife can cut up food for easy digestion. A blunt knife cannot cut food, and so leaves the digestive system slowed and overwhelmed. In the same way, a quiet mind cuts through the appearance of things, dissecting the truth from the non-truth, leaving the mental and emotional systems well-functioning and strong.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“It’s about having the right kind of debate and not the right kind of answer. We are moving toward a higher level of consciousness, not a higher level of perfection.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“We have taken the joy out of service industries, making them mechanized, robotic and impersonal, which in turn has made the people working those jobs miserable. People used to be willing to trade compensation for service oriented jobs because there was an element of joy in being of service and interacting with other people every day. Now, the joy is gone but the work is not. It’s a good thing that those jobs get automated. We need to return to joyful, purposeful work.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“If we are one with everything, then we can aid our inner peace through design.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“To know a place is to know nothing more and nothing less than its beauty.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Life is the flower, love is the vase.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“One becomes tired not as a result of the things he has done, but rather as a result of thinking about the things he has not done. Fatigue is a symptom of worry, not accomplishment.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“We cannot change anything. We can only become change. The external is a reflection of the collective self. A big mirror.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Being is believing in the power of now. ”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Some argue that meditation is a nice concept for those who are not suffering from illness, poverty, tragedy or hunger, but that it doesn’t solve the world’s problems. That’s true. Meditation is not meant to solve anything. It is meant to unsolve everything, bringing the world back to its whole, rather than reducing it to its constituent parts. Once unsolved, the world becomes a perfectly interconnected place. A place to be served rather than a place to take service. And in this way, meditation is the solution.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“There is no such thing as a happy person in an unhappy relationship.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Wealth breeds art, which breeds wealth.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“The greatest risk to our health is not taking healthy risk.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Peace IS love.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“If you’ve ever wondered what it’s all about, you’ve wondered right.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“The world is full of teachers, past and present, beckoning you to follow in their footsteps, some in the hopes that their footsteps will be paved in gold and written in books, others in hopes that you will find the happiness which they have found, and others in hopes that you will travel further than they have traveled and discover something which was only faintly perceptible, but obviously beautiful to them.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Competition is the indefinite loop of causing future loss to the winner.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“We all seek truth. Some seek big Truth and some seek small truths. To seek either, we recognize that we must leave the shore and enter the water. That is where the similarity ends though. For those who seek big Truth, there is great preparation, physically and mentally. A ship must be built, weather must be studied, food must be rationed, tools must be tested. The body must be trained. The mind must become comfortable with pain, sickness, loneliness, death. For those who seek small truths, little preparation is needed. The destination is known and the distance is short. Maybe the feet remain touching sand. Maybe some swimming is involved. Maybe something more. In any case, the key characteristic to small truths is safety. And safety is defined by applying the known (skills, materials, etc.) to the known (distance, time, etc.), such that the result is known: success. When success is the only possible outcome, the truth we obtain along the way is only a convenience. When failure is a possible outcome, truth becomes Truth.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“To destroy is to bring the energy of creation into something.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Trees don’t grow leaves into seeds, so why should we grow reality into dreams?”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Why do we eat three meals a day? If you can’t answer that question to your own satisfaction, stop doing it and eat when your body needs food.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“I’d rather see palm trees than skyscrapers.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“How can a work of art sell for anything more than the source of its inspiration? Taken to its logical extreme, we will one day value the world of virtual reality, and its manifold environments more than we will value the entirety of the original environment herself.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Slowness, grace and beauty are valuable as a means and not as an end, as a feeling and not a product.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“I thought I was in love. I felt the feelings that the great writers had expressed about love and the great singers had sung about love and the great painters had painted about love, and I knew how to spell love, and I knew how to think about it, and I knew what to think about it. I knew that I could not touch love or feel it with my hands or my arms or my head. I knew that love was an emotion, and not a thought, as other thoughts were easy to disregard. I knew love to be something that was real even when other feelings were real. I knew love was young, and that it grew, and that it changed, and that it evolved. I knew it was harder than passion and even harder as it evolved. I knew it was as old as the human race and that history had largely ignored it in its text. I knew that I wanted it as much as I knew that I probably needed it. I thought I knew many, many things about love in that day, and yet, love is so much more special.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“For all the bad to be avoided, there is more good to be done.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Good men do things for a reason. Great men do things for a purpose.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Whatever the cause, find the cure.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“The world is filled with temptations. Understanding what tempts is more important than understanding what's tempting.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Talk all you want about environmentalism, but where have all the indigenous people gone?”
— Asher Luzzatto
“It’s funny how we run toward wealth when it will eventually price us out of having enough children to preserve it.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Faith is a seeing man's blind eye.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“To be truthful one must first understand the nature of the opposing falsehood.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“There is no such thing as world peace, only global contracts not to be at war. Peace is personal.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Success is not an achievement, it is a state of being.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“In every pair of eyes lies a first impression.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“In my sense of things, I tend not to use the majority of my senses.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“It is noble to accept, nobler to appreciate.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“In the darkest corners of my mind I found infinity.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“It is a world filled with race based statism. Illicit complicity between the warlords and the bumblebees.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“There's no logic, only rationalized magic.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“The leaps of one mind can support the slumber of a thousand others.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“To justify the absurd we engage the supernatural. To justify the supernatural we engage the absurd.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Sexuality is a product of love and loneliness crossing paths.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“When someone speaks of his or her ‘better half’ I remind them that it’s important not to give away the better half so easily.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“A secret is only good if telling it is bad.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Luck comes to those who believe that not everything is predetermined. Success comes to those who believe that not everything is lucky.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Rest your eyes. Weary eyes lose their ability to see clearly.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“When I was young I knew a great many things that I don’t know now, but which I was happy to forget at the time.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“If you seek passion, find it in a kiss. If you seek companionship find it in a hug. If you seek love find it in love.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“I love youth dearly. I love it with every bone in my body which is not aged.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“In a moment all can be forgiven, but all the moments to follow require that forgiveness not be taken for granted.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“One can spend his days with drink or he can spend them with water, though the former will eventually require the latter.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“The realist place on a mirror is where glass meets wall, where you meet life.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Find your way through, not toward.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“If your glass is half empty, fill it up.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Truth exists in the moments where time is only a good fiction.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Systems allow us to feel control over the uncontrollable.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“If you want a following, find followers. If you want a community, find friends.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“I can give you directions, but you must understand the language of your map.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“The smell of dinner is strongest when the stomach is weakest.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Love, love, love. Choose it first, and when it’s over, choose it again. Keep choosing love until it’s no longer a choice at all, but rather the natural rhythm of your heart. This will take hard work. Potentially many years of hard work. But when love is your rhythm, the rest of your life is a beautiful song.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Detach from the result and trust the process. The world will not change overnight, but it will forever retain the potential for change.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“If we fall in love with ourselves, we take care of our selves. We take care of what we love.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“The goal is not to understand everything, it’s to love everything.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“As I moved from extrovert to introvert, I did not lose joy in others, I gained joy in myself.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“The depth of the truth matches the strength of its audience.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“If we cannot give our fellow humans enough peace and time to smell the roses, register that scent, and smile, then we are not prioritizing correctly.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Joy is the stepping down of comfort into nothingness, the movement from control to surrender. Comfort is only an alter upon which we place our material selves.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“If everyone has their own channel, whose the network, whose the audience?”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Today, truth is traveling faster than it has ever traveled in the history of humankind. Tomorrow, it will break that record.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“If yesterday is our dream for today, then we must work on getting comfortable with our concept of the future.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Innovation is the search for control.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Vision and execution. We need both. Only in rare cases, can someone effectively execute on their own dreams, and only in rarer cases can someone execute on their own dreams more effectively than someone who is not the dreamer. As the scale of the dream grows, the scale of the execution grows. Someone who is good at seeing the world from a high peak may not be good at helping climbers at the base of the mountain. Someone who is good at climbing may not necessarily be good at helping climbers once they’ve reached the peak. If we take this analogy to its logical extreme, we might see the human race as climbing a mountain toward higher consciousness, with some of the population at the peak drawing the map, others at ridges all along the great mountainside with hands extended down, ready to pull climbers up, others at the base of the mountain beginning to climb, and still others mentally preparing for the climb.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“When all is lost, all has changed, all is new.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Trust that you are manifesting every moment you are alive.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“A population which is asleep, supports sleep aids.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Be peace to promote peace.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“What if everything mattered? What if everything had a consequence? How would we live then? In paralysis or freedom?”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Study the system like you study yourself and then study yourself like you study the system. The feedback loop will bring you into a deep form of intelligence, a place from which the system can be made to reflect the self.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Aren’t we all just in search of sustainable luxury, the enjoyment of existence without sacrificing enjoyment for future generations?”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Great artists would make great leaders in an alternate reality where truth was easily accessible and ignorance was difficult to find.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“May the artists tell our stories so the others may retain what need not be lost in the transition.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“We can only patch holes for so long before we sink. Better to return to shore. A new ship is needed.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Any idea or communication which requires speed and volume to be effective is only an alarm clock for those who are asleep.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Truth has a strong vibration. If spoken slowly, the words have room to breathe.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Rather than look the part, be the part.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Evolution is expression.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“We cannot stop evolution, but we can change its course.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Intelligence is a mantra, a daily practice of connecting disparate beliefs to one coherent whole.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Playfulness is presence.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“When we look back, the artists will have told our story. The historians will only do their best to interpret the art.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Find people you want to be strong for and be strong for them.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“We are only as good as our most oppressed and least repressed.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“The first question I try to ask myself after I’ve blamed somebody for something is “what did I do to manifest this? How am I responsible here?” I can’t change somebody else’s beliefs, but I can change mine. I’m here to learn.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“A belief is not something you hold. It’s something you maintain.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Help your child smile. Help her find those muscles. Help her feel beautiful when she smiles. Help her know happiness. Help her up.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“I am direct because I value your time. I am direct because I believe we have an infinite amount of common ground. I am direct because I want to skip the uncommon ground and get to the common ground. I am direct because it is on that ground where we make our individuality, collective.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“If we speak the kindest version of what we want to say, we’ll find kindness reflected back at us as an appreciation for our hard work. Kindness is hard work. It requires the empathetic balancing of what is best for us and what is best for others. But like everything, balance exists. Words can serve our highest purpose and simultaneously serve the highest purpose of those for whom the words are meant. Eventually, kindness becomes easier because the kindness projected beckons the kindness we receive and the kindness we receive becomes a source for future kindness. A beautiful cycle upwards.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“The time we spend with each other can be joyous again. From the mud of fear and anxiety, may we grow gratitude and joy. May we be here now so that the future falls away like a dried flower falling from a cold branch.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“It is that deep. It is that spiritual. It is that unknowable.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“If you cannot enjoy peaceful music, look within to figure out why your vibration cannot match the vibration of peace.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“We benefit from the design of love.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“There are basically two viewpoints on child rearing. Masculine and feminine, yang and yin, harden and soften. The way to soften children is the way to soften society, and visa versa. The poles are not the goals. Balance is the goal.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Consciousness is a clear window. Reality is a dirty window. Drugs are a blunt tool for removing the hardened material from the window, but if overused, drugs scratch and damage the window. As dirt is removed, more refined tools may be used. Eventually, meditation, as the finest tool, slowly, gently washes away whatever remains.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“The more cutthroat business becomes, the less spiritual it becomes, the less attractive it becomes for spiritual people, the more attractive it becomes for cutthroat people, and the more cutthroat business becomes. The cycle will go mostly in one direction. That’s bad for business and it’s bad for humanity.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Those who dream about the future are those who build the future.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“While we treat the sadness, let’s remember to grow the happiness.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Every day we move between reflection and action, building a life of integration.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Stand under a large tree on a hot summer day, and feel how luxurious nature can be.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Complaining is a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Some say art must teach and some say art must be. Some say art must be both and in fact cannot be only one. By transmuting emotion or thought from vibration to representation, the act itself becomes one of teaching, whatever the ultimate intent might be. The artist always teaches himself through the act and the form of art.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“By its nature, an influencer is a trend. An influencer must influence to attract. Truth need not influence. Truth need only be truth to attract.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Someday soon it will be cooler to be private than public.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“I love the term “low key”. Keep it personal. The low key is the deepest.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“We must redefine luxury as anything that Mother Earth cannot sustain.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“The most sustainable designer is able to design something which is so long-term functional and also so long-term beautiful that it never feels dated while it stands. The quality of design matches the quality of material.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“When washing the dishes we should ask not ‘how clean can I get these dishes?’ but ‘how much water can I save while I get these dishes to an acceptable level of cleanliness?’ Trace amounts of any organic material are not going to harm us or our families. Unconscious use of water supplies will.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“We cannot cancel culture. And even if we could cancel something which does not actually exist, only the vainglorious would believe that such cancellation does more good than harm, creates more love than hate. Any war on culture is itself a culture and so the violence which is perpetrated in the name of progress will itself be the basis for future violence.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Since eye contact is a language we all know, let’s start speaking it a bit more often. That would be an inclusive way of living.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“The old order is crumbling under the weight of its own hubris. Beware when they say ‘return to normal’. Do not return to a burning house.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Words are just the expression of a sentiment. Two ways of phrasing something are just two personalities. Two characters. Different writers. They can still mean the same thing.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“The impact of one deep truth is greater than the impact of a thousand clever sentences.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Video games, pills and media. People demand that they be served by the system, which produces the tension from which they seek relief.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“In any relationship, follow the person who makes peace not war.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Each generation has its own awakening. Traumas enter and pass and the collective conscious responds directly to those traumas. The vibration of the music, the film, the art and even the companies in each generation carries with it the traumas of that generation. As traumas fade into history, new and unburdened ideas are able to break through the walls, which trauma builds for itself. This is why there are great periods of scientific and artistic renaissance throughout history.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“If competition fosters growth, what is it about growth that is competitive?”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Technology is a window into the soul of human consciousness.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“We must ask ourselves if we want ideas for their inherent power or for the escapism they provide.”
— Asher Luzzatto
“Art is a collection of two points in time: the time of capture and the time of edit. The artist becomes the artist and then upon completion, the artist becomes the critic. If the critic trusts the artist, the critic doesn’t edit. If the critic trusts the artist, but doesn’t think the artist has communicated effectively, the critic edits slightly. If the critic doesn’t trust the artist, the critic edits heavily. Unfortunately, no amount of editing can save an artist who has lost trust in the momentariness of the capture. ”
— Asher Luzzatto