How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)

Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make.

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave on the face of the ocean. When the wave is gone, is the water gone? Has anything happened? Nothing has happened. It is a play, a game, a dance.

The insecure way is the secure way.

When people find out what it is that's ticking in them, they get straightened out.

There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.