A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.

Every intentional act is a magical act.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers-by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work-is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility.

It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.

The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.

I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered — now I have only one doubt left — which of the twain was God?