“The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces.”

“Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.”

“It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.”

“Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained”

“I am an idol worshipper; for I understand what idol worship means, and the idolater does not.”

“The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is.”

“We live in the Age of the Higher Brain, the cerebral cortex that has grown enormously over the last few millennia, overshadowing the ancient, instinctive lower brain. The cortex is often called the...”

“Two chemicals called actin and myosin evolved eons ago to allow the muscles in insect wings to contract and relax. Thus, insects learned to fly. When one of those paired molecules are absent, wings...”

“Soon we shall discover that the temple of all humanity is nothing less that the Temple of the Living God!" ~ Chapter One, "The Awakening" ~ Discovering the Bliss of your True Divine Reality”

“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought t...”

“Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.”

“Intellect is not wisdom.”

“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

“I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myse...”