Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou'); the Atman, or immanent eternal Self, is one with Brahman, the Absolute Principle of all existence; and the last end of every human being, is to discover the fact for himself, to find out who he really is.

Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.

In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.

When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.

God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.

Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust