As the natural coherence of the world vanishes, there's a guilt that grows great and angry in the basement of our beings.
Creativity and love come from the same source.
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are right.
In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison. I believe that in the heart of each human being there is something which I can only describe as a child of darkness who is equal and complementary to the more obvious child of light.
Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.
Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.
Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.
Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.
That is the trouble, everybody is giving everything in the world a piece of their minds. Whereas what we want is not a piece of somebody's mind, even the best mind, so much as an open heart and an open spirit.
The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our time in your own life and your own nature. You must really explore, as you've never explored before, what human nature is like.
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.
We have a mighty task before us. The earth needs our assistance.
You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself.
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