Sam Messer quotes

“You take that leap of faith. You have to be willing to follow, blindly, wherever it takes you. If you know where you're going beforehand, you're not going to end up with anything worth knowing.”
-- Sam Messer

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“People who believe in painting... realize there is something greater than just coming up with an idea, and executing it.”
-- Sam Messer

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“In a very small way, painting addresses the 'Big Questions' to which we'll never find the answers. You do what you have to do even if it seems hopeless.”
-- Sam Messer

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“How do you create something unknown?”
-- Sam Messer

“Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.”

Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.264, Macmillan

“Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.”

Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.174, Macmillan

“Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.”

“Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.”

“But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.”

“Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.”

“Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing - not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything. If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you. Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.”

Source : Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.139, Sounds True

“You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.”

“Those who criticize the most typically end up solving the least.”

“Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things...”