Quotes by Laurens van der Post

Laurens van der Post

Creativity and love come from the same source.

And Love

Creativity

Source

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Doubt

Fear

Freedom

I hear people everywhere saying that the trouble with our time is that we have no great leaders any more. If we look back we always had them. But to me it seems there is a very profound reason why there are no great leaders any more. It is because they are no longer needed. The message is clear. You no longer want to be led from the outside. Every man must be his own leader. He now knows enough not to follow other people. He must follow the light that’s within himself, and through this light he will create a new community.

Light

Men

Profound

I suspect it was…the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and temper his mettle without such honour. There is deep in him a sense of the heroic quest; and our modern way of life, with its emphasis on security, its distrust of the unknown and its elevation of abstract collective values has repressed the heroic impulse to a degree that may produce the most dangerous consequences.

Degrees

Hero

Men

In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison. I believe that in the heart of each human being there is something which I can only describe as a child of darkness who is equal and complementary to the more obvious child of light.

Believe

Children

Heart

Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one’s eternal peril.

Change

Journey

Life Changing

Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.

Dream

Men

Self

Of all man’s inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but love will fight no-love every inch of the way.

Fighting

Love

Men

Often I have found that the one thing that can save is the thing which appears most to threaten … one has to go down into what one most fears and in that process … comes a saving flicker of light and energy that, even if it does not produce the courage of a hero, at any rate enables a trembling mortal to take one step further.

Hero

Light

Steps

On the night that the Second World war was declared, there were crowds in the street. It was a summer’s night and there was a blackout. On every side you heard people crying: ‘Look at the moon!’ The moon had been there every minute of their lives and they’d never seen it.

Moon

Summer

War

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Life

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Love

Love Is

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Quotes by Laurens van der Post

Laurens van der Post

Creativity and love come from the same source.

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one’s eternal peril.

Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.

Of all man’s inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but love will fight no-love every inch of the way.

On the night that the Second World war was declared, there were crowds in the street. It was a summer’s night and there was a blackout. On every side you heard people crying: ‘Look at the moon!’ The moon had been there every minute of their lives and they’d never seen it.

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