To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood India. My vocation was culture, not sainthood.

The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.

Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane.

As long as you have not grasped that you have to die to grow, you are a troubled guest on the dark earth".

The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.

Light does not come from light, but from darkness.

The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.

The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils itself, the world comes into existence.

If we pay no attention to it, time does not exist.

It would be frightening to think that in all the cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that only human life is happening randomly, that only one's destiny lacks meaning.

I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body.

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by how one thinks and acts.

Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.

I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim.

The most beautiful man in the world says everything with his eyes, and the rest with his hands and mouth.

Take what you want, and pay for it.

Be a thrifty steward of thy goods.

To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.

I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.