The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.

Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.

Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

When the individual feels, the community reels.

Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.

Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too.