You change the most permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through the varying attitudes you have toward them.

By going along with feelings, you unify your emotional, mental and bodily states. When you try to fight or deny them, you divorce yourself from the reality of your being.

When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence.

Therefore, as always, make of this voice what you choose to make of it. Make of me what you choose to make of me, but recognize within yourselves the vitality of your being. And look to no man or no idea or no woman or no dogma, but the vitality of your own being, and trust it. And that which offends your soul, turn away from, but trust yourself.

The flesh is as spiritual as the soul, and the soul is as natural as the flesh.

To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it.

When we give way to joy, we do not feel that we have lost control, but gained freedom.