How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.

Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.

Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.