Henryk Skolimowski Quotes

• The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.

  Henryk Skolimowski

  Beauty, Spiritual, Men

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• Fortunate are the nations that can build wooden houses. Because wood breathes, transforms, deteriorates, like us. It is also important to have flowers and plants where we live, because they breathe, too. Contemplating a flower for three seconds can be a captivating solitary journey back to original geometry, which is always revitalizing.

  Henryk Skolimowski

  Flower, Journey, House

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• Happiness is being at peace with yourself while the self is united with a larger order of things.

  Henryk Skolimowski

  Self, Order, Being At Peace

  Henryk Skolimowski (1999). “Dharma, Ecology and Wisdom in the Third Millennium”, p.123, Concept Publishing Company

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• La participación trivial acaba aburriéndote, te deja una sensación de superficialidad, contribuye poco a tu sentido profundo de la vida. La participación significativa, por el contrario, te compromete, te cautiva y te satisface, contribuye al sentido de tu vida...

  Henryk Skolimowski

  Healing, Hands, Bores You

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• If we reconstructed human spirituality painstakingly, we would end up with a mangnificent tree whose branches go in so many directions, yet all trying to touch the heavens.

  Henryk Skolimowski

  Tree, Heaven, Trying

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• The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is why it aims at uprooting not only the rationality of man but his common sense.

  Henryk Skolimowski

  Men, Common Sense, Uprooting

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• There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and sympathetic in modern times: the love of nature, the love of animals, the sense of social compassion, the sense of the spiritual dangers of affluence.

  Henryk Skolimowski

  Spiritual, Compassion, Animal

  Henryk Skolimowski (1993). “A Sacred Place to Dwell: Living With Reverence Upon the Earth”, HarperElement

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