Alejandro Jodorowsky
Born: 02-16-1929
Alejandro Jodorowsky is a Chilean-French filmmaker, playwright, actor, author, and spiritual guru known for his avant-garde films and profound influence on the surrealist and cult cinema. Born in 1929, Jodorowsky's works often explore themes of mysticism, alchemy, and spirituality. Beyond filmmaking, he has written numerous books on tarot and philosophy, and is celebrated for his innovative narrative techniques and visionary storytelling style.
Book summaries for books written by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Quotes
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.
If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure, no use, nothing which will attract and charm me, for by the suppression of your individuality, you lose your distinctive character.
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it. The abyss is only unreality. Those who confront the unreality of their existence are those who can hope to penetrate reality.
We must constantly remind ourselves that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
When you look at the Earth from space, you don't see any divisions of nation-states there. This may be the symbol of the new mythology to come; this will be the country that we will celebrate, and these are the people we are one with.
Reality is a creation of our mind. We destroy it. It does not destroy us.
You are not in the universe; you are the universe. You are not in time; you are time. When you understand this, everything changes.
The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created - created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going, to, but one we are creating.
The universe is a prodigious condensation of matter-energy into one consciousness, one thought, one mind, one being. We are all part of this colossal being.
The mind is a universe of thoughts and emotions, constantly evolving and expanding. It is through this vastness that we navigate our own existence.
We are all made of stardust, and our destinies are intertwined with the cosmos. Our actions have repercussions beyond our comprehension.