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- Attraction is the apparent ability to consume.
- Women ask, "what?", men ask, "how?".
- 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.
- "Those who speak do not know. Those who know do not speak." I wonder who said that? (BS)
- 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.
Featured Articles
One No Vote
Over forty years ago, we formed a community giving each member a decisive and irrevocable no-vote on any proposed action that affects the group. We understood that even if a large political unit, such as a country or city ruled by the majority or fewer, could afford a dissatisfied segment of the population, a closely associated community can not.
Perfection
We live in a culture where we have the widely-held view that nobody's perfect. Why do we so readily agree that nobody's perfect? This resistance to the view of the perfection of mankind is based on the belief that life can't be perfect if there is bad in it, and we can't be perfect if there's bad in us
Johnny Story
by Vic Baranco
This article originally appeared in Aquarius in December 1969. The Aquarius was a magazine published by the Institute of Human abilities at various times since the late '60