Arnaud Desjardins Quotes

France, Writer
June 18, 1925 – August, 10, 2011.

Arnaud Desjardins was a French author. He was a producer at the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française from 1952 to 1974, and was one of the first high-profile practitioners of Eastern religion in France. He worked on television documentaries with many spiritual traditions unknown to some Europeans at the time, including Hinduism, Tibetan Buddhism, Zen, and Sufism from Afghanistan.

Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door.

Arnaud Desjardins
- Saying
- Loving
- Opening Up
Life is movement. The more life there is, the more flexibility there is. The more fluid you are, the more you are alive.

Arnaud Desjardins
- Life
- Alive
- Movement

On days when the sky is grey, the sun has not disappeared forever.

Arnaud Desjardins
- Sun
- Sky
- Disappeared
You will never feel loved until you love yourself.

Arnaud Desjardins
- Feel
- Yourself
- Loved
Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom.

Arnaud Desjardins
- Freedom
- Child
- Examples
There are no bad people, only badly loved people.

Arnaud Desjardins
- People
- Bad
- Loved
Terrible or not, difficult or not, the only thing that is beautiful, noble, religious, and mystical is to be happy.

Arnaud Desjardins
- Happy
- Difficult
- Terrible
How can I progress on the Way thanks to every day difficulties.

Arnaud Desjardins

There is nothing Clever about not being Happy.

Arnaud Desjardins
- Happy
- Being
- Clever
The law commands us to do what we would do naturally if we only had love. The Way consists of finding that love, which then becomes the law.

Arnaud Desjardins
- Love
- Way
- Law
Happiness is not found, it is created. Happiness does not depend on all that we lack, but on the way in which we use all that we have.

Arnaud Desjardins
- Happiness
- Have
- Depend