Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.

Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.

Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe

And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.

We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.

We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.

A star would lose its value if it tried to be something else

Every decision ever, to this moment here.

Many people ask how to heal an aching heart. I ask in return how does one release the attachment to the aching?

When worry is present, trust cannot crowd its way in.

No amount of regret can change the past. No amount of anxiety can change the future.

People love seeing people trying to change stuff.

Dont test me, Second guess me, Protest me, You will DISAPEAR! (East Jesus of Nowhere)

Think about that. Two hundred and eighty-five new or expanded programs, $2 trillion more in new spending, and not one new bureaucrat to file out the forms or answer the phones?

Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.

There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.