Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many run away. . . The risk of inner experience, the adventure of the spirit, is in any case alien to most human beings. The possibility that such experience might have psychic reality is anathema to them.

I had always been impressed by the fact that there are surprisingly many individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and yet are not stupid, and an equal number who obviously do use their minds but in an amazingly stupid way.

Doesn't the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant?

Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.

...consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates.

The totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone.

But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.