Nature alone can do nothing. nature can cure only when man recognizes his place in the world, which is not in Nature, as with the animal, but in the human kingdom, the link between the natural and the divine.

... There was no longer any goal beyond - I became one with the Path. Each station thenceforth marked a progression into a new spiritual latitude and longitude.

To live creatively, I have discovered, means to live more and more unselfishly, to live more and more into the world, identifying oneself with it and thus influencing it at the core, so to speak. Art, like religion, it now seems to me, is only a preparation, an initiation into the way of life. The goal is liberation, freedom, which means assuming greater responsibility.

We have learned through bitter mistakes that all the peoples of the earth are vitally connected, but we have not made use of that knowledge in an intelligent way. ... The world must become small again as the old Greek world was - small enough to include everybody. Until the very last man is included there will be no real human society.

Every discovery is mysterious in that it reveals what is so unexpectedly immediate, so close, so long and intimately known.