Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

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

The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. (on being 36 yrs old)

An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.

To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.