Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.

But questions that don’t answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.