there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.

The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.

There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.

A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.