Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.

Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry, and of perception, the four Great Ones, the Four Roots, the First Four of Fire and the Wet, Earth and the wide Air of the World. To find the other many elements, you must go to the laboratory and hunt them down. But the four we have always with us, they are our world. Or rather, they have us with them.

Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.