A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence.

To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be an empty drudgery, a mere imitation of true spirituality.

The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me to attend to the here and now. If, then , my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be