I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not a thing we have to maintain by our own effort.

The mind is "ashamed" of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces.

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

You feel free in Australia. There is great relief in the atmosphere - a relief from tension, from pressure, an absence of control of will or form. The Skies open above you and the areas open around you.

There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.

Museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has no fixed order and will not be co-coordinated! It is sickening! Why must all experience be systematized? A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?