A Curated Collection
of beloved aphorisms from
Dandiananda, The Sage of the West.

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Life is but a small part of Art.
~ DANDIANANDA

Sometimes the most open mind is firmly shut.
~ DANDIANANDA

Faith is but a nightlight for those afraid of the dark.
~ DANDIANANDA

There are no Mondays in the universe.
~ DANDIANANDA

You have to let go, to better hold on.
~ DANDIANANDA

There is nothing so loud as silence.
~ DANDIANANDA

Never let reality intrude upon your dreams.
~ DANDIANANDA

Life is Myth.
~ DANDIANANDA

The best advice is not to give advice.
~ DANDIANANDA

We are so much more, when we believe so much less.
~ DANDIANANDA

Why think outside the box, when there is no box?
~ DANDIANANDA

Never confuse accolade for accomplishment.
~ DANDIANANDA

Be as concerned with your death as you were with your birth.
~ DANDIANANDA

You can love and be loved by a dog, but you can only worship a cat.
~ DANDIANANDA

A leaf, falling to the ground, does not add to the weight of the world.
~ DANDIANANDA

We feel it, but no one has ever seen the wind.
~ DANDIANANDA

What does not serve us must be abandoned.
~ DANDIANANDA

All religions share the false belief that death is a state of being.
~ DANDIANANDA

Sorrow and happiness often share a bed.
~ DANDIANANDA

One can never have too much beauty.
~ DANDIANANDA

Art is not entertainment.
~ DANDIANANDA

Love before Death, and Art above all.
~ DANDIANANDA

The eating of animals is as reprehensible as it is indefensible.
~ DANDIANANDA

Life owes you nothing.
~ DANDIANANDA

Fate is simply what happens.
~ DANDIANANDA

The only thing we can read in the stars is our cosmic insignificance.
~ DANDIANANDA

To remember the essential you must forget the mundane.
~ DANDIANANDA

Come winter, Death gains a step on us all.
~ DANDIANANDA

At this moment, on a billion planets, revolving around a billion distant suns, another sorry creature, invents another insignificant god.
~ DANDIANANDA

People are most jealous when you love yourself.
~ DANDIANANDA

To understand the rain you must get wet.
~ DANDIANANDA

Your possessions possess you.
~ DANDIANANDA

Love makes sweet fools of us all.
~ DANDIANANDA

Philosophy unlived is just observation.
~ DANDIANANDA

Action, never prayer.
~ DANDIANANDA

Many are called but few are chosen.
~ DANDIANANDA

Most “free spirits” are chained to a desk.
~ DANDIANANDA

A million praying people can’t accomplish the work of a single doctor.
~ DANDIANANDA

Without limits on wealth you get limitless poverty.
~ DANDIANANDA

If you got out of bed this morning, you are an optimist.
~ DANDIANANDA

Prayer is the conversation between the delusional and the nonexistent.
~ DANDIANANDA

I love everything about opera except the singing.
~ DANDIANANDA

I am an Artist, a minor sort of god.
~ DANDIANANDA

Philanthropy is giving dry bread to those dying of thirst.
~ DANDIANANDA

Truth: the unwelcome stranger, the uninvited guest.
~ DANDIANANDA

Beauty kills, she takes no prisoners.
~ DANDIANANDA

Racism. Sexism. Speciesism. The only difference is the victim.
~ DANDIANANDA

Genius knows no compromise.
~ DANDIANANDA

The words "religion" and "cult" are synonyms.
~ DANDIANANDA

Love is the subjugation of self.
~ DANDIANANDA

Somewhere, in a distant galaxy, a rogue asteroid begins a billion year journey towards Earth, bringing our unnoticed and meaningless annihilation.
~ DANDIANANDA