I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.

Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful.

It’s an already inside outside, The philosophers say it’s the soulBut it’s not the soul: it’s the animal or the man itselfIn its way of existing.

What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.

I'm one of my sensations.

Accept the universeAs the gods gave it to you.If the gods wanted to give you something elseThey’d have done it.If there are other matters and other worldsThere are.

I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.(6/20/1919)

And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

I’d like to have enough time and quietTo think about absolutely nothing, To not ever feel myself living, To only know myself in others’ eyes, reflected.

On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid, And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.

I love flowers for being flowers, directly.And I love trees for being trees without my thought.

I'm more influenced by characters than standups. I love strong, comic women, because it's so hard and I have so much respect for anyone who can do it.

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

I say if you're not obsessing about something, you might not be into it quite enough.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness.

If Aims impel these Astral Ones The ones allowed to know Know that which makes them as forgot As Dawn forgets them now

The tantric path involves taking the mind and directing it beyond the senses.

When we pray, we open the door for God to come into our problems and situations and work on them.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.

Highly fed and lowly taught.