And through the opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment you might even touch eternity.

Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.

You cannot have exterior development without interior development to hold it in place.

Real love will take you far beyond yourself;and therefore real love will devastate you.

Be the most ethical, the most responsible, the most authentic you can be with every breath you take, because you are cutting a path into tomorrow that others will follow.

The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will.

As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.

I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.

Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.

The point is to unify the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses both.

I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar.

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

Yes, well, I'm not asking you to hide anything. Hiding won't help you. You can't very well hide from a pit, can you? You just need to avoid falling into it." - Brohan Madhrarigal

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

Nothing will replace good journalism.

I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it.

Your very own sister may take your husband away and your husband may be the ticket for economic survival.

I do like to write but I also like to get and out and play. I am losing track of all the Cooper versions that I do - I have one for Iceland, different one over here.

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.