
“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
Foreword, The Marxists (1962).
1960s
“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say”
“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say”
Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)
Context: I say: "What you give, you give to yourself; what you do not give, you give up." And this is to say that whatever you do in the world, you do to yourself; and whatever you do not give to the world, you lose. If I keep my knowledge, I lose it. (...) One receives knowledge and gives it. When you give knowledge, you enrich yourself. If you do not give love, you are detracting from yourself. If I begin to help people, if I begin to heal people, I begin to heal. Do you understand? To be a therapist, you have to be a patient. The first thing to do to heal yourself is to heal others. I have one more saying: "I do not want anything for myself that I do not want for others".
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
Book III, ch. 23.
Discourses
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
“What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.”
Source: Rework