To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.

Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it.

Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.

It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.

He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.

'We live' writes Pursewarden somewhere 'lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation oа reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.