Tom Shadyac

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The bike accident caused me to start talking about spiritual truths. This accident - where I faced my own death - compelled me to talk about these truths and try to make a movie about them.
- Tom Shadyac
Collection: Spiritual
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You send a message in everything you do, Im always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there.
- Tom Shadyac
Collection: Ideas
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The solution begins with a deeper transformation that must occur in each of us. I AM isn’t as much about what you can do, as who you can be. And from that transformation of being, action will naturally follow.
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Collection: Action
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We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old. We're 175,000 years old. So we're trying something out. Who wouldn't think it would be better to have the most stuff to take as much as you could? As we do that, we see why the moral prophets come along and say, don't even store into barns, right? It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. We've seen we plunder nature. We plunder our neighbor. We create enemies because we're against each other.
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Collection: Eye
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Nothing in nature takes more than what it needs
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Collection: Needs
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Love is the essential energy of the universe. It is the force that puts the stars in the firmament, and it makes the blood run through the veins.
- Tom Shadyac
Collection: Running
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I wasn't paying enough attention to what my heart was telling me. When I paid attention and got the message, I could move forward and heal.
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Collection: Moving
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Illnesses are often times a reflection of an emotional place that needs healing or attention.
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Collection: Healing
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I don't consider anything I'm doing as generous. In the new model of the world, I hope people will consider whatever I'm doing as just normal.
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Collection: People
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Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy.
- Tom Shadyac
Collection: Love Is
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The way I think we were living is an invention. The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.
- Tom Shadyac
Collection: Thinking
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Fear represents our need to hang on to the riverbank, to control outcomes, results, our lives; it swims upstream. Truth is about releasing that hold, letting go of results, and trusting the direction of Life’s current.
- Tom Shadyac
Collection: Letting Go
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Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. The three keys to a spiritual life.
- Tom Shadyac
Collection: Spiritual
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TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.
- Tom Shadyac
Collection: Children
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As I "won," I didn't feel the fruits of that. I felt the fruits when I served others, when I gave myself away. . . . I've always seen my life as an experiment. I just want to go to what works. As I felt the charity aspect in my life, the giving aspect, I felt a power and I've walked more into that.
- Tom Shadyac
Collection: Giving
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I didn't want to hear the usual answers about what's wrong because I believe these are symptoms: global warming, genocide, hunger, poverty, war, environmental crisis. If we can identify the root cause, we can change our ways.
- Tom Shadyac
Collection: War
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I was raised Catholic and didn't like the dogma and exclusivity of that teaching but I was moved by the moral teachings and by the power of the Jesus fellow.
- Tom Shadyac
Collection: Jesus
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I wasn't big in the party scene but I did have an excessive lifestyle. I had much more than I needed. I think that was a manifestation of a certain kind of mental illness.
- Tom Shadyac
Collection: Party
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I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.
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Collection: Art
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I don't have any interest in changing a system, because the system will simply get bucked back by people who haven't changed.
- Tom Shadyac
Collection: People
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I was always kind of finding humor to be an access point to the conversation, to a pain relief, if you will. My mother was in a wheelchair since I was very young, so she was in pain and we used humor.
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Collection: Mother
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I have not walked away from Hollywood. I'm walking away from the way I personally did business in Hollywood. The budget of whatever movie I do needs to be efficient; it needs to consider what kind of resources we're using and how to be as responsible as possible.
- Tom Shadyac
Collection: Walking Away
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The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.
- Tom Shadyac
Collection: Mean
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Look at native cultures - they've lasted for tens of thousands of years, not doing everything right. We wouldn't want to emulate them in many ways, but their basic philosophies - being a part of nature, a part of a tribe or group without elevating, not what you call dominator philosophies - they lasted for tens of thousands of years. It took us to come and put them asunder.
- Tom Shadyac
Collection: Philosophy
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If you bounce a tennis ball against a wall it will come back to you the same way every time. But if you shift the wall a few degrees it will come back another way.
- Tom Shadyac
Collection: Wall
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If we exchange bombs for bread there will be less reason for wanting to kill us. I just want to have the conversation.
- Tom Shadyac
Collection: Bombs
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The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.
- Tom Shadyac
Collection: Violent Acts
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I am operating under the philosophy that I will simply use what I need and the rest - even if I still have it somewhere - is not mine. It is others'. It is for the healing of the natural world. And it is in the process of returning.
- Tom Shadyac
Collection: Philosophy