“Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.”

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.

God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.

Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.

I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher.

I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.

Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities.

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.

A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails