Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation.

I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.

To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large-This is the experience of inestimable value to everyone.

A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.