Every Artist Is An Unhappy

The Absolute Yearning Of One Human Body For Another Particular Body And Its Indifference To Substitutes Is One Of Life's Major Mysteries.

It Is In The Capacity To Love, That Is To See, That The Liberation Of The Soul From Fantasy Consists. The Freedom Which Is A Proper Human Goal Is The Freedom From Fantasy, That Is The Realism Of Compassion. What I Have Called Fantasy, The Proliferation Of Blinding Self-centered Aims And Images, Is Itself A Powerful System Of Energy, And Most Of What Is Often Called 'will' Or 'willing' Belongs To This System. What Counteracts The System Is Attention To Reality Inspired By, Consisting Of, Love.

There Is A Natural Tribal Hostility Between The Married And The Unmarried. I Cannot Stand The Shows So Often Quite Instinctively Put On By Married People To Insinuate That They Are Not Only More Fortunate But In Some Way More Moral Than You Are.

Coffee, Unless It Is Very Good And Made By Somebody Else, Is Pretty Intolerable At Any Time.

For Most Of Us, For Almost All Of Us, Truth Can Be Attained, If At All, Only In Silence. It Is In Silence That The Human Spirit Touches The Divine.