The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy.

 

Man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.

One should stick by one’s own soul, and by nothing else. In one’s soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one’s own soul-knowledge, one is the worst of traitors.

And if tonight my soul may find her peace In sleep, and sink in good oblivion, And in the morning wake like a new-opened flower Then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.

Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.

Sin is a queer thing. It isn’t the breaking of divine commandments. It is the breaking of one’s own integrity.

I never saw a wild thing Sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without ever having felt sorry for itself.

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into luster.

And what’s romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it’s always daisy-time.

The tragedy is when you’ve got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.