What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It’s close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Go be the next humblest version of yourself.

I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.

People look to the future for salvation, but the future never arrives.

That was perfect. It was just the opposite from what I said yesterday.

The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.

Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.

In God's vision, no inside or outside exists. Still, in the beginning, Mother is asking all to meditate on Him in the heart, in order to achieve concentration.

Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.