The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.

Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That’s why it’s good to be able to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

All of life is a meditation, most of it unintentional.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.

The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it's so unimaginably immediate.

I don't like my face. I don't like to look at it.

The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.

In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.

I don't want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there's no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won't die young.

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.

In the morning the sunflower blossoms due to the sun's rays. This morning I just wanted to remind you that my heart blossoms with love for you everyday I wake up and it is going to do that forever.

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.

Great opportunity is only as good as your preparation to take advantage of it.