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"The Incal" Quotes

A cosmic adventure unfolds as a troubled hero embarks on a journey that blurs the line between reality and illusion.

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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.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

rebellionexistence

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.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

individualitypersonality

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.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

personal responsibilitychoices

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.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

realityexistence

We must constantly remind ourselves that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

perspectiveobservation

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.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

unityglobal perspective

Reality is a creation of our mind. We destroy it. It does not destroy us.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

realityperception

You are not in the universe; you are the universe. You are not in time; you are time. When you understand this, everything changes.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

self-realizationcosmic connection

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.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

futurecreation

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.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

universecosmic consciousness