We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.

It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom which is a proper human goal is the freedom from fantasy, that is the realism of compassion. What I have called fantasy, the proliferation of blinding self-centered aims and images, is itself a powerful system of energy, and most of what is often called 'will' or 'willing' belongs to this system. What counteracts the system is attention to reality inspired by, consisting of, love.

The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.

We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.

What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?

All our failures are ultimately failures in love.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.