Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
Sacred love is selfless, seeking not its own. The lover serves his beloved and seeks perfect communion of oneness with her.
We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.
Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.
The living moment is everything.
Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.
People always make war when they say they love peace.
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.
A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.
America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.
Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us: we are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love has become a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table.
The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.
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