In My Own Way: An Autobiography

This happening is what I call God, and what it is essentially is beyond all possible conception. I feel it most intensely in a stillness of mind where words and ideas are not running around in my brain.

Strength of personality—even though you yourself know very well that it is a big act—is always mistaken for an “ego-trip,” and, in the mystic, for a contradiction of everything you are saying.

I. A. Richards, Mircea Eliade, Clyde Kluckhohn, or Jerome Bruner for

To overcome the association of sex with guilt it was enough for me only to read Havelock Ellis and Georg Groddeck, and since then such problems as I have had seem to have arisen from the qualms and proprieties of other people, who take my lighthearted joy in this aspect of life for lack of maturity and serious commitment.

doing the Japanese and I the English, with background improvisations by Vincent Delgado on the koto and shakuhachi.

because there is nothing to lose there is nothing to fear, and that the illusion of having a space of time is for living it up nobly.

Ram Dass,

J. P. de Caussade’s Abandonment of the Divine Providence,

Nature, Man, and God and the volume of his collected letters knows

The Legacy of Asia (1937) to Psychotherapy East and West