Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable.

If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.

There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.

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.

The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

Experience teaches only the teachable.