The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which He starts in us, refuse priority to all else, and be faithful to the sacred.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.