La atracción física desaparece muy rápidamente. La pasión sólo se mantiene cuando la atracción que sentimos se basa en algo más que la apariencia física de una persona. La compañía del alma es aquella que nos atrae en los cuatro niveles de nuestro ser: el físico, el emocional, el mental y el espiritual. Para disfrutar de una vida de amor, y no sólo unas semanas, meses o años.

— John Gray

Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger - 9½ Weeks (1986)

Cast/Crew of 911 and 911LS at the SAG Strike 7.17.23

Our image of ourselves passing through time comes with the realization that we will soon pass away. Much of our lives are spent running from our own shadow. The denial of death and the division of the human soul go together. Dreading anything that reminds them of their mortality, humans push much of their experience into an unconscious part of themselves. Life becomes a struggle to stay in the dark.

John Gray

Humans do not rank above other animals, or below them. There is no cosmic scale of value, no great chain of being; no external standard by which the worth of a life can be judged.

from Feline Philosophy by John Gray 

"Science will never be used chiefly to pursue truth, or to improve human life. The uses of knowledge will always be as shifting and crooked as humans are themselves. Humans use what they know to meet their most urgent needs – even if the result is ruin."

- John Gray

[Poetic Outlaws]

“'If a lion could talk, we could not understand him,' the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once said.  'It's clear that Wittgenstein hadn't spent much time with lions,' commented the gambler and conservationist John Aspinall.” ― John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

John Gray

Still Life of Tulips

Nine 1/2 Weeks

Inspired by the movie 9 1/2 Weeks Adrian Lyne

Para seguir enamorado es indispensable que nos guste la persona en que nos hemos convertido en la relación con nuestra pareja. Todas las relaciones que tenemos sacan a la luz una parte de nosotros mismos. La persona correcta sacará a la luz lo mejor de nosotros. Cuando la pareja no es la persona adecuada para una relación íntima, conseguirá que aflore lo peor de nosotros. En vez de convertirnos en más sabios, receptivos, amorosos y creativos, dejamos de crecer.

— John Gray

Some 911 and LS people on the picket line

John Gray is directing 911: Lone Star Season 4x12

If you think of your life as a story, you will be tempted to write it to the end. But you do not know how your life will end, or what will happen before it does. It would be better to throw the script away. The unwritten life is more worth living than any story you can invent.

from Feline Philosophy by John Gray 

Nothing is more alien to the present age than idleness. If we think of resting from our labours, it is only in order to return to them. In thinking so highly of work we are aberrant. Few other cultures have ever done so. For nearly all of history and all prehistory, work was an indignity.

— John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; October 16, 2007) (via Alive on All Channels)