Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.

Meditation transports one from the transient world of matter to the real world of dreamings, visions, and imaginings where idea is and concepts are born.

Knowledge is cosmic. It does not evolve or unfold in man. Man unfolds to an awareness of it. He gradually discovers it.

The true measure of greatness of a human being is their ability to express love in relationship.

Every man should be master of anything he does and should do it in a masterly manner, with love, no matter what it is, whether hard physical work, menial or boring work, or inspirational work.

The keystone of the entire structure of the spiritual and physical universe is Rhythmic Balanced Interchange between all opposites.

The beauty of a piece of music is not in its technique but in the Soul of its creator; nor is it in the sound vibrations of the piece but in the silence of the Light from which the sound springs.

The mightiest works have been accomplished by men who have somehow kept their ability to dream great dreams.

I will see beauty and goodness in all things. From all that is unlovely shall my vision be immune.

Every genius thinks INWARDLY toward his Mind instead of outwardly toward his senses

When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.

but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.

Don't lick your wounds unless you care to taste the sting a second time.

Here's one prophecy the writer can make - you'll never be rich and you'll probably be poor.

To love is to live on the precipice.

It’s hard to drink when you dance. And it’s hard to dance when you drink.

My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.

Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original.

I don't know if you realize it or not, but your sudden devotion to her is creepy.

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.