7 Pearls of Wisdom : Alejandro Jodorowsky




(quotes extraced from ‘La Constellation Jodorowsky’ (1994). Mouchet, L. Les Films Grain de Sable, 91 mins, (Video: DVD))



1. 'You only know who you are when you are dead. You cease to exist when you say 'this is what I am'.  Definition is death.

2. 'I am a gambler, not an artist or mystic'.

3. 'The day I understand it, I will love it less'.

4. 'There is an enormous emotional catastrophe on the planet'.

5. 'With art, never work with people who don't need to earn money'.

6. ‘Eastern Enlightenment does not exist. We are all enlightened, we just don’t realize it. Nothing else is as important as the mystery of being alive.’

7. 'All our problems originate from the way we are born. The way we are born depends on the relationship between the mother and the father. The mother and fathers relationship depends on the relationship of theirs. All our ideas come from our great-grandparents. At least 15 people think through you at any time.'