All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.

There is no being capable of a spiritual life who does not have within him a jungle. Where the wolf constantly HOWLS and the OBSCENE bird of night chatters endlessly.

There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.

An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.

This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.