Series I - Chapter 36 - 'Words'

Sung words belong more fully to the world of ritual and routine, of incantation and mothers’ murmurings, than to the fully lucid and well-lit world of argument and dramatic advance. They work, or not.

He wondered what really happened / who spoke just now and who listened / who saw and what was seen / and where did those cities and buddhas go:

Streams of spiritual life are always flowing through the world. Yet as long as we busy ourselves with ordinary everyday thoughts these streams cannot flow into us. Our meditation-words are like gateways into the spiritual world; they are winged messengers which bear men upwards into supersensible realms. They have power to unlock our soul so that t

Hearing that Major Chadwick intended to go mouni next day, he spoke at length against the practice, pointing out that speech is a safety valve and that it is better to control it than to renounce it, and making fun of people who give up speaking with their tongue and speak with a pencil instead.