Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary experience is still within that realm. Heaven entails hell, and 'going to heaven' is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage point from which the divine Ground can be more clearly seen than on the level of ordinary individual experience.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.

Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!

If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.