You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.

I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.

Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.

Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.

The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.

No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure, together with the rest of nature, the season of the terrible cold.