A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.

Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.

The journey, Not the destination matters.