Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool.

We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit.

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.

Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.