How Do We Define, How Do We

I, For Instance, Regard Any Particular Man As Finite, As One Who Has Had A Beginning And Who Will Have An End. He Has Been Born, And He Is Going To Die. In The Meantime, He Has A Body That Roots Him To This Time And This Place.

The Schizophrenic May Indeed Be Mad. He Is Mad. He Is Not Ill. I Have Been Told By People Who Have Been Through The Mad Experience How What Was Then Revealed To Them Was Veritable Manna From Heaven. The Person's Whole Life May Be Changed, But It Is Difficult Not To Doubt The Validity Of Such Vision. Also, Not Everyone Comes Back To Us Again.

In The Society Of Men The Truth Resides Now Less In What Things Are Than In What They Are Not.

Human Beings Seem To Have An Almost Unlimited Capacity To Deceive Themselves, And To Deceive Themselves Into Taking Their Own Lies For Truth.

Our Time Has Been Distinguished, More Than By Anything Else, By A Mastery, A Control, Of The External World, And By An Almost Total Forgetfulness Of The Internal World. If One Estimates Human Evolution From The Point Of View Of Knowledge Of The External World, Then We Are In Many Respects Progressing. If Our Estimate Is From The Point Of View Of The Internal World, And Of Oneness Of Internal And External, Then The Judgment Must Be Very Different.