If we pay no attention to it, time does not exist.

to have solely one thought, but it to be capable to destroy the universe.

Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane.

The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.

And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.

Water symbolizes the whole of potentiality - the source of all possible existence.

To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood India. My vocation was culture, not sainthood.