If we cannot 'practice the presence of God,' it is something to practice the absence of God, to become increasingly aware of our unawareness till we feel like man who should stand beside a great cataract and hear no noise, or like a man in a story who looks in a mirror and finds no face there, or a man in a dream who stretches his hand to visible objects and gets no sensation of touch. To know that one is dreaming is to no longer be perfectly asleep. Bur for news of the fully waking world you must go to my betters.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

Friendship arises out of mere companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which t…

A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.

Laugh if you want to / Or say you don't care / If you cannot see it / You think it's not there / It doesn't work that way.

Spinoza saw ... that if a falling stone could reason, it would think, 'I want to fall at the rate of thirty-two feet per second per second.'