“True knowledge is not attained by
thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.”
“There is nothing mind can do that cannot
be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness.
When mind is still, then truth gets her
chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.”
“My God is love and sweetly suffers all.”
“The great are strongest when they stand
alone,
A God-given might of being is their force.”
“Do not belong to the past dawns,but to the
noons of future”
“But few are those who tread the sunlit
path;
Only the pure in soul can walk in light.”
“It is true that the subliminal in man is
the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseeen
dynamisms which explain his surface activities. But the lower vital subconscious
which is all that this psycho-analysis of Freud seems to know, - and of that it
knows only a few ill-lit corners, - is no more than a restricted and very
inferior portion of the subliminal whole... to begin by opening up the lower
subconscious, risking to raise up all that is foul or obscure in it, is to go
out of one's way to invite trouble.”
“I swore that I would not suffer from the
world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my
heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished
surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me.”
“As in all infant sciences, the universal
habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it
unduly and try to explain a whole field of nature in its narrow terms - runs
riot here (in psychoanalysis). Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of
suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood.”
“The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need
not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our
first limitations. For to all things that are not unknowable, all things in the
universe, there correspond in that universe faculties which can take cognisance
of them, and in man, the microcosm, these faculties are always existant and at
a certain stage capable of development. We may choose not to develop them;
where they are partially developed, we may discourage and impose on them a kind
of atrophy. But, fundamentally all possible knowledge is knowledge within the
power of humanity. And since in man there is the inalienable impulse of Nature
towards self-realisation, no struggle of the intellect to limit the action of
our capacities within a determined area can for ever prevail.”
“By our stumbling the world is perfected”
“The anarchic is the true divine state of
man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to
the devil and his kingdom.”
