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"Running away is the same, whether we do it through the idea of God, or through
drink. As long as one is escaping...there is no essential
difference between the worship of God and addiction to alcohol. Socially, there
may be a difference; but psychologically, the man who runs away from himself,
from his own emptiness, whose escape is his search for God, is on the same level
as the drunkard."
On Love and Loneliness, Seattle, 6 August 1950 |
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"Always to seek for wider, deeper, transcendental experiences is a form of escape from
the actual reality of 'what is,' which is ourselves, our own conditioned mind. A mind that
is awake, intelligent, free, why should it need, why should it have, any 'experience' at all?
Light is light; it does not ask for more light."
The Flight of the Eagle, Ch.3 |
