Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

The spirit of man is nomad, his blood bedouin, and love is the aboriginal tracker on the faded desert spoor of his lost self; and so I came to live my life not by conscious plan or prearranged design but as someone following the flight of a bird.

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

The mystery of creation was always between two, in an awareness that there was always both a 'thou'and and 'I'.

Creativity and love come from the same source.

You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself.

That is the trouble, everybody is giving everything in the world a piece of their minds. Whereas what we want is not a piece of somebody's mind, even the best mind, so much as an open heart and an open spirit.