The spirit of man is nomad, his blood bedouin, and love is the aboriginal tracker on the faded desert spoor of his lost self; and so I came to live my life not by conscious plan or prearranged design but as someone following the flight of a bird.

Creativity and love come from the same source.

On the night that the Second World war was declared, there were crowds in the street. It was a summer‘s night and there was a blackout. On every side you heard people crying: ‘Look at the moon!’ The moon had been there every minute of their lives and they’d never seen it.

Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

The mystery of creation was always between two, in an awareness that there was always both a ‘thou‘and and ‘I’.

The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.

In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison. I believe that in the heart of each human being there is something which I can only describe as a child of darkness who is equal and complementary to the more obvious child of light.

Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.

You may well be right, and disaster may well come, I had told him. But for me it will always be a point of honour to go on working to prevent disaster, if only to make certain it is the right kind of disaster life needs when it does ultimately come.

Of all man’s inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but love will fight no-love every inch of the way.