People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.

A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?