To pursue yourself is an interesting and absorbing thing to do. Once you have caught the scent of a hidden being your own hidden being you won't readily be deflected from the tracking down of it.

Banality is a terribly likely consequence of the underuse of a good mind.

We are our own children's "perfect" parents, and within us lie all the simple, yet profound qualities of inner perfection.

Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.

The first thing I did was make a mistake. I thought I had understood capitalism, but what I had done was assume an attitude -melancholy sadness- toward it.

It is not important what you see, but it is important the way you see it.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.

If we were in tune and communing with God every moment, where would be the need to pray or ask for anything?

Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.

I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.

Although your physical body was created, you are the one who makes this body function. In other words, you are the divine life known as God. I call it a life branching out from God.

Moralism is always the cheap substitute for mysticism.