The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.

Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.

What we have to be is what we are.

My spiritual goal is to one day walk into God and disappear.

The sacred attitude is, then, one of deep and fundamental respect for the real in whatever new form it may present itself.

Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others.

Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was about as scientific as an old woman secretly poring over books about occultism, trying to tell her own fortune, and learning how to dope out the future form the lines in the palm of her hand. I don't know if I ever got very close to needing a padded cell: but if I ever had gone crazy, I think psychoanalysis would have been the one thing chiefly responsible for it.