I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968)

Louis Gottlieb: Guru

Quotes 

• Guru : Who are you? Do you know who you are?

  Harold Fine : I'm trying. Guru, I'm really trying.

  Guru : When you stop trying, then you'll know who you are.

  Harold Fine : Well, I - I'm trying to stop trying.

• [first lines] 

  Guru : "Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower, But if I could understand, What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is."

  Hippie Girl : Beautiful. Is that Ginsberg?

  Guru : No, Tennyson. "But if I could understand, What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is." So, to know God, to know man, you first have to know what a flower is. A flower. But how can you know what a flower is, unless you know who you are? Who are you? Do you know who you are?

• Guru : We must find a way to send our love messages to them before it's too late. We must turn them on to love. Send them love flowers. Turn them into love junkies. We must hug and kiss them in the streets, in their houses, in their offices, in their minds.

• Guru : We must psychedelicize their impoverished dreams. Teach them how to live again. Make them stop playing the ego game. Teach them how to die so that they can be born again. So that they can become a flower again.

• Guru : It's not in there. There's nothing to find in there. There are no people there, only machines. Garbage-disposing machines, dishwashing machines, television machines being watched by people machines. We have left the machine. And by so doing, we are opting for survival.

• Guru : I'm reminded of the story of a holy man in India. One afternoon, Siddhartha returned from a nearby village, and he had gained an insight how the excretory force had to be reversed, actually, so that the relationship of the apana, the excretory energy to this basic contraction of the hatha yoga. One must never overlook the importance of the control of the excretory energy. The Mula Bandha, which had puzzled him for years the root contraction, famous heart of the hatha yoga had opened as a new wave.