Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.
The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.
You always wrestle with depression, you always wrestle with those things, because the events and the experiences are still there, and the things that take place are still happening.
This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening, and this is ours.
In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess, for Happenings cannot be sold and taken home; they can only be supported.
What is happening on your innermost self is worthy of your entire love.
I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over.
Money. . . is always the great clue to what is happening in the world.
I don't really get excited about good things happening to me.
Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering
It doesn't hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to.
The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me.
I got offstage and was just looking at my hands, and they were shaking. I was like, 'I wanna kill someone! What's happening?'
When wrong people leave your life, wrong things stop happening
I don't seem to have time to breathe. Everything's happening so quickly, and so much is happening all the time.
Happiness doesn't come from external circumstances. It comes from the inside-regardless of what is happening around us.
When you're experiencing what's happening right now, all of a sudden everything that happened to you in your entire life melts away.
Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.
More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings. . . Fear [False Evidence Appearing Real] grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.