In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being; as we are, so we know.

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.

At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.