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I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn’t matter much else what they find.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.