Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.

Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence

You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.