“The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.”

Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.

To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.

Hidden nature is secret God.

Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.

What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.

The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.

The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.

The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.

Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.

For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.

He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.

Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.

Since my kitchen is the most important part of my home, I want to be creative and innovative, not only in its aesthetic, but also in the tools that I’m using to cook.

The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

Actors aren’t stupid, mostly, and if there’s a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director’s going for, if you’re aware of that too, you can do things to help that.