That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.

The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.

When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.

The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great nerve center from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.

The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.

They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.

Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.