Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.

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.

In real life there is no such person as the average man.

And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that's what soma is.