“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”

“Our present economic, social and international arrangements are based, in large measure, upon organized lovelessness. We begin by lacking charity towards Nature, so that instead of trying to...”

“But the disciplining of the will must have as its accompaniment a no less thorough disciplining of the consciousness. There has to be a conversion, sudden or otherwise, not merely of the hea...”

“This state of 'no-mind' exists, as it were, on a knife-edge between the carelessness of the average sensual man and the strained over-eagerness of the zealot for salvation. To achieve it, on...”

“The doctrine that God is in the world has an important practical corollary the sacredness of Nature, and the sinfulness and folly of man's overweening efforts to be her master rather than he...”

“To discover the Kingdom of God exclusively within oneself is easier than to discover it, not only there, but also in the outer world of minds and things and living creatures. It is easier be...”

“Even the most ordinary experience of a thing or event in time can never be fully or adequately described in words. The experience of seeing the sky or having neuralgia is incommunicable; the...”