Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.

To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.

Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.

The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.

To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.

There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate, to answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.