Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.

Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness.

You make a great, very great mistake, if you think that psychology, being the science of the mind's laws, is something from which you can deduce definite programmes and schemes and methods of instruction for immediate schoolroom use.

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

... the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.