The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.

What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it.

To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.