For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

The world is a progressively realized community of interpretation.

Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.

Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails.

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.

If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed.

I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me.

The truest experience of life is when we dream awake.

If you want to experiment, do something temporary.

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.

Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk.

The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.

You know how much money the oil companies have? If you need some gas, just go fill your tank off and drive off - they're not going to miss it.

Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now?

My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.

It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.