The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.

Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.

It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.

I decided that I would make my life my argument.

No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth and beauty. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it--to remain children of light.

Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.