Quotes by Henry Miller

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

"We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated  like stars."

I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

"Everyman has his own destiny: The only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him."

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because se we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he gets desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive form the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up to discover what is already there.

We invent nothing, truly. We borrow and re-create. We uncover and discover. All has been given, as the mystics say. We have only to open our eyes and hearts, to become one with that which is.

Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.