Enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is then experienced as a present fact.

Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination.

At first you might find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred space and use it, eventually something will happen. Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again.

It is within you that the divine lives.

I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.

I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.