People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.

Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east.

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.