We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.

Do you see yourself as a victim of the world, or do you see yourself as the world?

Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—-to the “conquest” of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.

Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.