“He leaned into Le Voirs face with the calliper and breathed on him, holding forth on this new science of which calibration was the test; these measurements would describe classes of being and we wh...”

“Ours was the age of enlightenment, he said, when the battle cry was, We must know, we shall know!, and reason would depose superstition and we be liberated by it.”

“There is no what if. Only in stories.”

“I do not like to think too much on this Africa. It is too large and too empty, he said. People like De Buys, they astonish me with their courage or perhaps it is a lack in them; they cannot imagin...”

“He leaned into Le Voir’s face with the calliper and breathed on him, holding forth on this new science of which calibration was the test; these measurements would describe classes of being and we w...”

“There is no ‘what if’. Only in stories.”

“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.”

“At the age of 45, most days in Tucson were spent feeling like I was on the summit of Mauna Kea, as I was exhibiting debilitating health symptoms that corresponded to what I saw at very high altitud...”

“The hour is only long thus, if you've waited.”

“I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yours...”

“Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.”

“If there is one ruler that can harmonize and unify the mob of characters [in our astral body], it is the Ego (the Higher Ego, or Self, or Spirit). The more the Ego shines like a sun at the center o...”