A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it.

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.