He who lives happiest has forgotten most

"Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "God," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH, mispronounced Jehovah, later still.

Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.

Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

Reality is what you can get away with.

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.