The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience.
Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma.
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface .
Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.
All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.
Can you say something about nothing?
Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which our self-centered consciousness permits us to see. We must not live thoughtlessly, taking our illusion for the complete reality, but at the same time we must not live too thoughtfully in the sense of trying to escape from the dream state. We must be continuously on watch for ways in which we may enlarge our consciousness.
Ending is better than mending.
The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.
All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.
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