If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.

There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions.

Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.

That which exists through itself is called The Eternal. The Eternal has neither name nor shape. It is the one essence, the one primal spirit. Essence and life cannot be seen. They are contained in the light of heaven. The light of heaven cannot be seen. It is contained in the two eyes.

Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.