Advice For Life Quotes

“As we learn from life, it successively presents us with more appropriate challenges.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“At a cosmic level, it doesn't matter so much what we lose or gain, but rather what we learn.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“Awareness increases every time we dream, because the dream allows the highest level of happiness that can be achieved.”
― Dan Desmarques

“Be aware of the temptations which are nothing but illusions that don’t upgrade your wisdom and spirit to higher truths but, instead, slowly consume your energy.”
― Dan Desmarques

“Becoming closer to success in life is very often just relative to the amount of investment one has in faith, work and persistence, as all elements surrounding us can conspire to bring one closer to it, including those that seem to come our way to push us towards directions we didn’t intend to go and aren’t even willing to accept.”
― Dan Desmarques

“Being humble is not about having little and being proud of it, but having plenty and not being ashamed of it, or making the decisions that aren't popular while being comfortable with one's own path.”
― Dan Desmarques

“Being in a religion is important but you must remember that all religions have limitations, and these limitations put people inside karmic cycles, among which are also the common cycles that unite them, in the same challenges as well as in similar achievements, keeping them attached as a group within the same faith. This is how the mechanics of any religion are formed in order to allow the creation of an everlasting tribe. Without such methodology, a religion would disappear, as so many others did in the past. And yet, the encompassing Truth of the Great Architect is much wider than all this, and much wiser than all religions combined.”
― Dan Desmarques

“Beliefs are powerful motivators. You can gather a group of idiots with different viewpoints on the same subject and watch them reach a confident state of mind by gradually agreeing on untruthful conclusions. Or you can find an experienced researcher and doubt his uncommon insights and even watch how such insights are rejected by the previous group. But nothing is more unbelievable than a dream that was unseen and manifested far from the eyesight of the unbelievers, whom, through the actions motivated by their own thoughts, withdrew their presence from the continually transforming reality of the dreamer.”
― Dan Desmarques

“Between extremes, calm finds itself in the center, often perceived as chaotic. It is in the center of the chaos that the wise find the perfect balance, between what should and shouldn't be, what has been and could be, right and wrong, fear and courage. Along this path, luck favors those who are brave enough to ignore the conceptualizations of what is real or unreal, appreciated or unappreciated, possible or impossible. And thus, their life is guided towards risk with safety provided by the third eye.”
― Dan Desmarques

“Between our mind and an object there is nothing but self-developed conceptions.”
― Dan Desmarques

“Blessed are the sons of Odin for they will see Valhalla behind curtains of fire and smell the blissful fragrances of its flowers after being pierced in battle. And even though their heart is often poisoned by the darkest emotions experienced and their mind fogged by betrayal, still they can claim any storm they find themselves in as their own and gather courage from its lightenings. It is because of this wholesome attitude to turmoil and chaos that their glory is always predicted by the oracle, for their nature mirrors the dream of their own god.”
― Dan Desmarques

“Blessed are the storms that favor the sons of Odin.”
― Dan Desmarques

“Consciousness is a ripple of reverberations that initiate in the heart and resonate like echoes in the mind. Fear not then that which you speak, but be aware of how it affects others, for the effects of it will return multiplied unto you; and always let that which is good be known, so that you can enjoy the multiplied effects of it too, or learn to discern both. Because those who think too much before they speak have not yet realized how fear restrains them from being conscious of their own potential.”
― Dan Desmarques

“Consciousness represents the intuitive ability to recognize the universal truths that govern existence, which lurk behind the veil of ignorance. But no one recognizes that he is ignorant until he exposes himself, internally or externally, to the questions that will lead to such recognition.”
― Dan Desmarques

“Contrary to public opinion, writers are not crazy. It takes a very sharp thinking, an extremely high ability for reasoning, and a very clear mind to write easily, quickly and with value. Whoever prides himself for preparing a short book for more than a year, shouldn’t be proud of his achievements, for such attitude pollutes the truth in art with a lie, and deceives the population into following the wrong leaders and reality changers.”
― Dan Desmarques

“Cyclic karma is not a metaphysical approach to the meaning of life because you can see it in history books. The world always attracts that which scares it the most, as if ignorance was not an excuse to avoid responsibility. And the world of today, is as silent about that which has been vilified, as in the case of the Muslims and other minorities, as it once was about the German Jews and other persecuted groups. But likewise and as before, by the same spiritual law, when you ignore that which you don't identify yourself with, you are dragged into a war you didn't choose to have.”
― Dan Desmarques

“Death only exists for the personality and not for the spirit.”
― Dan Desmarques

“Don’t feel guilty about what you couldn’t do for a living person after that person dies, for the dead understand the living beyond what they can see about themselves. They will see what you can’t see and know what you can’t understand yet.”
― Dan Desmarques

“Don’t feel shame because of your current life or past failures. Know that nobody is perfect and you can overcome your limitations with experience and constant learning. Focus in being a better person every day, as improvements can change your life for better, but focusing on shame and failures will only lead you towards apologizing yourself. Lazy and irresponsible people often justify their behavior with their past, while responsible and successful people strive to be better and proud of themselves.”
― Dan Desmarques

“Don’t let your thoughts be defeated by your brain. Don’t let your brain be defeated by fear. Don’t let fear be defeated by experience. Don’t let experience cloud your discernment. But do look, and see, and act according to your heart, and waste no time in doing that, for time is more limited than your perception of it.”
― Dan Desmarques

“Doubt is all that is needed to undo anything.”
― Dan Desmarques

“Dreams change the structures of thought. You can only achieve and work for what you can see first in your mind. Therefore, you shouldn’t be jealous or confused in regards the doing of others, or what you can't do, but rather learn from everyone.”
― Dan Desmarques

“Each person has a peculiar life with good and bad things in it. Do not merely focus in the good things others achieve, because you’re not aware of the price they’re willing to pay and that you might not be able to bear in the same way they do.”
― Dan Desmarques

“Earthlings tend to believe that they know the reality surrounding them, but such reality is in actuality just a mass schizophrenic manifestation supported by shadowing reflections of their own thoughts. It is not real unless agreed upon. And the more they keep themselves protected by their groups, to which they attach themselves based on emotional and psychological similarities and familiarities, the more arrogant they will become in such view of the world while detaching themselves further away from the truth. Life then becomes like an Asylum for souls who are ignorant of their ignorance, deluded in their own shared perceptions, and randomly wondering why the ghosts of their own reflections keep changing shape.”
― Dan Desmarques

“For an existential problem to be overcome, it must be experienced in the form of a projected and dramatized dilemma.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“Follow the ones that have once traveled the same path you do, because history repeats itself. In every generation, we have exactly the same kind of people we had in the past, in new stages of expression. The ones that created the television represent now the ones creating the iPad, the one that created the first plane is now like the one making satellites, and the one that once travelled around the unexplored sea, is as the one now traveling around the unexplored space. If you learn from the ones that have done what you do, you can learn much in order to move faster in your field than anyone else.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“Focusing on the need to have an answer to a problem increases that need by attracting more problems that justify it. If we think that the problems are different, in the need to understand them all, they will multiply among themselves. But these problems can all be eliminated with a meditation on the purpose of our existence.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“First, they came for the jews, and you did not speak out because you were not a jew. Then they came for the Muslims, and you did not speak out because you were not a Muslim. Then they came for the Scientologists, the Freemasons, the Rosicrucians, and many other religions and you did not speak out because you were an atheist. Then they came for Julian Assange, Alex Jones, David Icke, and other independent reporters, the writers, the YouTubers, the bloggers, and many others that kept warning you about the truth of what was happening, and you did nothing because you didn't care about the truth and you thought they were all conspiracy theorists. Then they came for you, and there was no one left to speak for you.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“Fear leads to discrimination, discrimination leads to arrogance, arrogance leads to lack of discernment, lack of discernment leads to ignorance, and ignorance isolates the mind and incapacitates the spirit to feel compassion and empathy, and that is the dark side.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques

“Fear is about knowing all the bad things that can happen to you and still move forward to achieve your goals. The greatest fears are related to humiliation, shame and death. Three thousand years ago, shame, humiliation and death, was about dying in a war and then have the head put in a stick for everyone else to see. One thousand years after, it was about being naked in a cross and left there to die in front of everyone. One thousand and five hundred years after, it was related to burning in a pole after being accused of witchcraft. But, in recent times, it’s just related to losing a job, the family and friends. Humiliation is often related to shame and most people don’t change their life because they fear being ridiculed and despised, even though they don’t face death as much as their ancestors once did. Great leaders make the difference among the majority, by refusing to stop themselves when seeing such reaction in those around them. For example, there was once a kid in Austria that wished to become an artist but was humiliated by his father and mother, ridiculed by his classmates and later on sentenced to jail by his government. However, years later, that person became someone we still tremble when hearing the name - Hitler. There was another one that was persecuted all his life, humiliated even in the day he died and became the most well-known and popular person in the world – Jesus Christ. Accepting defeat in life and even losing life itself, or facing ridicule from those that are most important to us, and still follow our heart, is part of the path to ultimate victory. Whatever we choose for our fate, challenges can make us stronger and the inner war against fear also.”
― Dan Desmarques, Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques