If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Example moves the world more than doctrine.
What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my own life and were making my destiny a part of theirs. To shake myself free of...
Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there i...
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
The man who looks for security even in the mind is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
The only peace the only security is in fulfillment.
Every day the choice is presented to us, in a thousand different ways, to live up to the spirit which is in us or to deny it. Whenever we talk about right and wrong we are turning the light of scrutin...
1) Work on one thing at a time until finished.2) Start no more new books, add no more new material to Black Spring.3) Don't be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.4) Work...
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
The world around me is dissolving leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away.
Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.
We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is i...
The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.
The art of living involves the act of creation. The work of art is nothing. It is only the tangible, visible evidence of a way of life, which, if it is not crazy is certainly different from the accept...
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.
The continent is full of buried violence, of the bones of antediluvian monsters and of lost races of man, of mysteries which are wrapped in doom. The atmosphere is at times so electrical that the soul...