The great lesson from the true mystics is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, and in one's backyard.

During all my first twenty years, I was depressed, terribly unhappy, lonely, isolated (and self-rejecting).

Religion becomes. a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

This Third Psychology is now one facet of a new philosophy of life, a new conception of man, the beginning of a new century of work.

The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within - and make the point : This can be done.

With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.