When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder.

The journey of love has been rather a lacerating, if well-worth-it, journey.

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

Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

Sex is our deepest form of consciousness. It is utterly non-ideal, non-mental. It is pure blood-consciousness.... It is the consciousness of the night, when the soul is almost asleep.

Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.

I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun.