Lafayette Morehouse is an intentional community founded in 1968.
Our intention is to maximize our potential both as individuals and as a group, and to have life be as much fun as possible. We present the findings of our lifestyle experiments in the form of courses.
Browse our courses- If you're going to play the game anyway, why not win?
- It's nice to be excited about life.
- Age means grace. There is little grace in youth.
- The only difference between a coward and a hero is which way they run when they're afraid.
- If you're interested in life, you're curious about death.
- The thing for a man to be enthusiastic about is the woman he's with. The thing for a woman to be enthusiastic about is herself.
- Love erases laziness.
- If you think that higher consciousness is available, why don't you have it?
- Compromise is a socially acceptable way for everybody to lose.
- Consistency is the meat of morality.
- The most effective cosmetic is interest.
- It's expedient to tell the truth.
- Bravery is moving toward your objective when feeling fear.
- Successful doubt doesn't provide anything but phony relief.
- Dying is just another thing to do. Its side effects are often death.
- It's ridiculous to fall in love with a woman and be mad because she doesn't act like a gentlemen.
- My life is great and it's all your fault.
- The word surrender exists because it's an experience everybody wants to have... under the right conditions.
- Chasing goals you are not interested in will kill you.
- The best cure in the world is the human immune system.
- There is no higher level of awareness... there is only awareness.
- Women do fail at all male standards. (Thank God).
- If males had the answer, there wouldn't be females.
- There are no handicaps, only opportunities to score.
- Conforming to your own moral system pays well.
- The only successful labor of deity, royalty and the upper class is noblesse oblige.
- There are no steps to rightness. Either you are or you aren't.
- Meanness is a harsh mistress... and expensive too.
- The only thing that age diminishes is frantic action.
- A unilateral decision produces loneliness.
- Women are very clear about whom they want what from.
- Feasting on the hors d'oeuvre of excitement leaves no appetite for fun.
- For all questions you don't have an answer to, the answer must exist outside your belief system; otherwise you wouldn't have a question.
- No doubt, no glory.
- Efficiency is not romantic. Romance is efficient.
- Guilt doesn't happen unless you betray yourself.
- If you were to have appetite without the concept of satisfaction, it would be torture.
- Everything that happens is an opportunity to have fun, make money and serve the world.
- Man's ultimate pleasure comes from producing pleasure for someone else.
- Your dreams are another category of what you have.
- There's no effort in being interested.
- Enthusiastic means being at least on time, if not early.
- When loving is more than enough, then you're eligible to fall in love.
- Fun is an emotionally judgmental addition.
- Every time you refuse an invitation to dance because you're afraid you'll stumble on the dance floor, you lose an opportunity to dance.
- Desire that includes later is counterfeit.
- Man has free choice even if enslaved. It's his decision if he likes it or not.
- If you're having fun, why would you want to withhold it from your friends?
- You're not going to change the hand you're dealt, but you can improve your ability.
- You have to get older, but you don't have to get worse.
- One's self is only fulfilled in the state of being intensely interested.
- Under the best conditions, normal is mediocre.
- Inspiration is being interested in your interests.
- The joy of a woman is loving her.
- You only forget the things you don't care to remember.
- I am the beginning and end of all experience.
- No one can maintain depression while whistling.
- We are only enslaved by the villains we create.
- The emotion an interested person feels is curiosity.
- Enjoyment disappears with the effort to hold it.
- Being ruthless in the pursuit of pleasure is commendable. Ruthlessness in going for success is despicable.
- Enlightenment is to know that what was planned was a party.
- Impossible is a communal hunch.
- Maintaining a sexual preference is much like being a vegetarian.
- Guilt has nothing to do with anybody else.
- If you must change anything but your judgment to have a positive self-image, it will never happen.
- Now that you know, what are you going to do about it?
- God did his last work on Saturday; it's been Cindy ever since... oops, I mean Sunday.
- The fun is in the commitment; it doesn't matter whether you win or lose.
- On the sixth day God judged all that had been created and found it very good, and of all those things the one man uses most is doubt.
- The trip to enlightenment is more fun than being enlightened.
- A woman serves a man best when she has her joy above all other values.
- Anger is a cheap way to excite one's body.
- The only people who deserve happiness are the ones who can have it.
- Fear of death is blasphemous.
- The trip to enlightenment is more fun than being enlightened.
