For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large-This is the experience of inestimable value to everyone.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it.

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

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.