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A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.



We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.



I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct - and societal repression much more devastating.



We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.



America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you - no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact.



Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes water and nobody knows what that is.



We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.



When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.



Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.



Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.



How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.



The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.



Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.



We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.



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.








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