But, on the whole, formal games are a way of getting together with other people without ever meeting them. Whether they be intellectual games like chess or brawny games like wrestling, I see no point in finding my identity through competition with others. I regard others who excel in sports, arts, or sciences as my own admired delegates or limbs, w

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

A Long Undressing,

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.

do not have binocular vision and thus cannot be quite sure of the correct position of a moving ball.

the meditation process of listening to silence. This is simply to close your eyes and allow your ears to resonate with whatever sounds may be happening spontaneously, making no attempt to name of identify them, just as when one listens to formal music. After a while one hears the sounds emerging, without cause or origin, from the emptiness of silen

Richard Wilhelm’s translation of The Secret of the Golden Flower.

called “The Psychology of Acceptance,” which I went on to expand into my first American book The Meaning of Happiness, subtitled “The Quest for Freedom of the Spirit in Modern Psychology and in the Wisdom of the East.” It must have been about

we would understand the sense of life if we would sing more and say less.