It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope in this way to atone for past sins and avoid future punishments; it is also because they long to visit the mind's antipodes and do some visionary sightseeing.

I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe.

You got rid of them. Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether ‘tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don’t do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It’s too easy.

If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?

When the individual feels, the community reels.