Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however - that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc

The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.

The backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no less real for that. But achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul.

George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.

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