You are the most sleepiest man I ever seed.

Dusk, suggesting the almost imperceptible posession of giant trees, settled with a purple haze about the cane. I felt strange, as I always do in Georgia, particularly at dusk. I felt that things unseen to men were tangibly immediate. It would not have surprised me had I had a vision.

There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death.

Most novices picture themselves as masters – and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.

We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers