“If you don’t know what to say, start by saying that… That opens things up.” …
“The day of a single universal language will dawn!… This language will be of the soul, for the soul, encompassing everything, scents, sounds, colors, one thought mounting another.” …
“Liberty is a better husband than love.” …
“You may be weaker than the whole world but you are always stronger than yourself. Let me send my power against my power… Let me discover what it is that I want and fear from love. Power and love, might and grace.” …
Traversing the landscape of life on the wings of trust. …
How to embrace our inheritance as “a creature of organic substance and electricity that can be eaten, injured and dissipated back into the enigmatic physics of the universe.” …
“If we are to be true and worthy heretics, we need not only new heads, but new hearts, and, most of all, that new emotional imagination… begotten of enlarged sympathies and a more sensitive habit of feeling.” …
“While wandering down the path of wonder, I briefly escape the world of separation and enter the world of unity.” …
“We create ourselves. The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.” …
How a brilliant woman rose against the tide of her time to fathom the mysteries of space. …
An antidote to the civilizational compulsions that rob human nature of nature. …
“The emotional life is not simply a part or an aspect of human life. It is not, as we so often think, subordinate, or subsidiary to the mind. It is the core and essence of human life. The intellect arises out of it, is rooted in it, draws its nourishment and sustenance from it.” …
“What is happiness but growth in peace.” …
“Songs are like rivers: each follows its own course, yet all flow to the sea, from which everything came.” …
An invitation to “a certain, forgotten way of seeing the world” and an exultation at “earthly life, with its duration so short it obliges us to surpass ourselves.” …
“It’s part of being human to fall short of that total acceptance and ultimate understanding — and often far short.” …
“We are never simply seeing what’s ‘really there,’ stripped bare of our own anticipations or insulated from our own past experiences. Instead, all human experience is part phantom — the product of deep-set predictions.” …
“We are carriers of spirit… into a future unknown, unknowable, and in continual creation.” …
“This has nothing to do with premonitions, there is nothing supernatural or mysterious about it, what’s mysterious is that we pay no heed to it.” …
How to grow “absorbed into the being or existence of the universe.” …
“The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one’s feelings, one’s work, one’s beliefs. It can be approximated only to the extent that conflicts are resolved.” …
“The true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing.” …
“Neither the whole of truth nor the whole of good is revealed to any single observer.” …
How to “include everything coherently and harmoniously in an overall whole that is undivided, unbroken, and without a border.” …