One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.

How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.

To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money. Money, money everywhere and still not enough! And then no money, or a little money, or less money, or more money but money always money. and if you have money, or you don't have money, it is the money that counts, and money makes money, but what makes money make money?

We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.

The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts.

Life, as we all know, is conflict, and man, being part of life, is himself an expression of conflict. If he recognizes the fact and accepts it, he is apt, despite the conflict, to know peace and to enjoy it. But to arrive at this end, which is only a beginning (for we haven’t begun to live yet!), a man has got to learn the doctrine of acceptance, that is, of unconditional surrender, which is love.