The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable. Who can know it?

You never actually solve a problem. You just become a better person by understanding it in a better way. Then it ceases to be a problem for you.

You know what an illusion is? On this planet, one small cloud has the ability to block the entire sun.

Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man both sit brooding in wistful discomfort. The magic that gleams an instant...

There are some truths so terrible that they should not be spoken aloud, so appalling that even to acknowledge them is to risk sacrificing a crucial part of one's humanity, to exist in a colder,...

Life in Oseyri was lived in fish and consisted of fish, and human beings were a sort of abortion which Our Lord had made out of cooked fish and perhaps a handful of rotten potatoes and a drop of...

Real religion does not mean Gods - it does not mean Angels and Demons - it does not mean miracles of healing. Real religion is all about you and your fellow humans. There is nothing else.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

To understand, you have to love, but to gain wisdom you have to understand with love.

Knowledge is not the power; it is the potential power. Willing is not the action, but potential action.

We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

The idea that each of us can be directly spiritual is radical. Most religions are based not on teaching adherents to be directly spiritual, but in persuading them to trust in the intercession of...

Everything is art and it's part of the painting. To talk with somebody it's art, to understand a language is art, to understand a book is art, to understand somebody is art...

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Scripture is one of many instruments to attain the Goal {experience of pure Soul}. How can it be discarded?

Listen. Do you see that you can't hear snowfall? Look. Do you sense that you can't see love? Touch. Do you grasp that you can't catch poems? Try. Smell this glass. Go on taste this cloud. These...

The issue is not simply one of needing to save the world, but also of needing to solve the problem of the loss of soul throughout the modern world. Part of what has been lost in the reckless rushing...

Smartass Disciple: Master, where will you go after your soul leaves your body? Master of Stupidity: What makes you think a soul will go elsewhere physically?

Until the evil man finds evil unmistakably present in his existence, in the form of pain, he is enclosed in illusion.

It is the beauty of life that makes our lives worth living.

It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one could lie at crucial moments.

Giving an opportunity to others is not political act

this free - man's prison known as life.

Purpose is the reason something is designed, made, created, or exists.

When you accept employment, you are admitting that you cannot think or develop yourself

There is nothing to fear. Nothing to worry about. Grieve nothing in this transitory world, he says softly.

Talking empties you of the noisy silence within.

Pleasure brings pain, but inner silence brings nothing negative; it is in itself of great value and is a far better way to be than to be in ego states.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.