The Perfume of Silence Quotes

“Joy knows itself. As children we didn’t even know the word joy, we were joy.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“It [realization of Oneness] means being constantly open to the possibility that we are like two flowers looking at each other from two different branches of the same tree, so that if we were to go deep enough inside to the trunk, we would realize that we are one. Just being open to this possibility will have a profound effect on your relationships and on your experience of the world.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“When we are happy, we don’t know that we are happy, because happiness requires childlike innocence. When a child is happy, he doesn’t know that he is happy. He doesn’t formulate it, he simply enjoys it.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“We are one huge universe speaking and listening to itself.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“Only the ego wants to get rid of the ego.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“Just stick to the ordinary circumstances without labeling them ordinary. Be open to them with no desire to change them in any way. They are, in fact, already magical and miraculous. They are the revelation of the Absolute. The mountains, for instance, are already miracles. We don’t need a little angel on top of the mountain to make it more miraculous, so don’t make one up.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“To begin with, it seems like an effort to keep returning to the welcoming presence, but at some point it is so natural that it seems to require an effort to leave it. It feels like home. We no longer feel that we need to be entertained.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“Keep everything open and live from openness to openness.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“If we think there is a problem with the world, we have a problem!”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“Life is a celebration. Consider everything that makes you happy as a gift from God and say, 'Thank you.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“Life is a celebration. Consider everything that makes you happy as a gift from God and say, 'Thank you.'

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― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“Let ghosts sleep, don’t wake them up. Celebrate and just get used to celebrating more and more.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“All we can do is work on ourselves. We can start with our own sense of being separate, with our own judgment, with our own feeling that things should be different, with our own refusal of the present situation, with our own refusal of others. As a person, we are not going to save the world and perhaps the world doesn’t need to be saved. All we can do as a person is to do our best.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“A world without death would have no beauty, no yellow leaves in the autumn. It would be boring. There would be no change because change implies death. A world without death would be a frozen world. The fact is that we want to make the world better than God does.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“God sees God everywhere.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“I have very strong opinions and don’t want to give them up..

That’s your problem! You’ll be screwed up by those who have the same opinions as you and by those who have the opposite opinions.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“The only thing that we need to remember is, “I don’t know.” Nobody knows. I am here sitting in a chair like someone who knows, but I don’t know. It just happens, I don’t know how. Every time it happens, I am amazed.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“There is no freedom at the level of the body-mind. There is absolute freedom at the level of consciousness. That which is perceived is not free. That which perceives is freedom itself.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“If you are not happy reading books, don’t read them. If you are not happy doing anything, don’t do it. Nobody forces you. This “follow your bliss” attitude will lead you towards bliss. Read the book as long as it makes you happy. When the book no longer makes you happy, put it aside. Don’t keep reading out of habit. Happiness is the highest good. It is sacred.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“The ego can never get rid of the ego.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“Don’t expect anything, and you’ll get everything.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“It is important to understand that sense perceptions, bodily sensations, practical thoughts, creative thoughts, and thoughts about the truth are impersonal. They are not a problem.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“If you had been born in a civilization in which the rising sun was called 'my sun,' you would consider it your sun.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“If there is psychological thinking, ask the question, “Who is this thinking about? Who is the one who is allegedly going to profit from this thinking? Who is the beneficiary?” That immediately switches the involved thinking into higher reasoning, into which it dissolves. Higher reasoning destroys the foundation of false, ignorant thinking.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“Know that your happiness is not in the next situation, in the next object, but that the next situation or object is simply a celebration of this happiness that we already are. Stick to happiness throughout all situations. Don’t stick to the situations.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“Expectation is a subtle rejection of the now.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“Our most precious treasure is freedom, and that means the freedom to be miserable if we so choose. We are free to identify with the body-mind organism if we want to. We are free to carry the baggage of the past with us or to drop it. It is very easy, but we choose not to. That’s our freedom.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“When we love our hate, we stop hating. Love always wins. To love hatred means to welcome it. It doesn’t mean that we should do what it tells us to do, but we shouldn’t suppress it either. When we love hatred we put ourselves out of the process of hatred, and love begins.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“We cannot see how divine the hills and the mountains are, so we want an angel with wings on top of them.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“Simply remain in waiting without waiting. You are the love in everything you love. You are the beauty in everything you behold. You are the intelligence in everything you understand. You are the sweetness in all things.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence