“Don’t you see how preposterous it is to pursue the spiritual life? How many people are conscious of God when they fall asleep?”

“What’s so funny?” Greg asked.

“Well, all these women are treating you like you’re a King.”

“You want to know why they treat me like a King? Because I treat them all like Queens!”

“These are my principles, but if you don’t like them, I’ve got others.”

“Man such as we know him, the ‘man-machine,’ the man who cannot ‘do,’ and with whom and through whom everything ‘happens,’ cannot have a permanent and single I. His I changes as quickly as his thoughts, feelings, and moods, and he makes a profound mistake in considering himself always one and the same person; in reality he is always a different person, not the one he was a moment ago.”

“A will is free only so long as it has not acted. Once it acts, then that very act becomes binding on it. The second time it acts, it does not act as free will, but as a ‘calculating will;’ for it carries the experience of the first act with it. And a calculating will is not a free will, but a limited will. The very creations, or acts of a free will, work as limiting factors upon it, and guide it in its future activity.”