If we are open only to discoveries which will accord with what we know already, we may as well stay shut.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into the unknown. The process of awaking has begun, the discovery is underway.