The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right

The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

Only times and places, only names and ghosts.

Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.

Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope in this way to atone for past sins and avoid future punishments; it is also because they long to visit the mind's antipodes and do some visionary sightseeing.