Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.
All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.
For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.
We don't get wounded alone and we don't heal alone.
Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.
Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and indescribably marvelous. I immersed myself in nature, crawled, as it were, into the very essence of nature and away from the whole human world.