“Run in the open air. Do mild Pranayama. Chant OM. Sing with devotion. Dance in ecstasy. Depression will vanish soon. You are Ananda Svarupa—where is gloom and depression? They are mental creations only. Remain silent. You can gain more by silence.”

“Such people who choose to depress are not mentally ill; their brain chemistry is not abnormal. It is changed from what it is when they are happy, but that change is perfectly normal for the total behavior, depressing, they are choosing…. The brain chemistry no more causes his depressing than sweating causes running. It is the choice to depress or to run that results in both.”

“Om began to feel the acute depression that steals over every realist in the presence of an optimist.”

“The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing, But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.”

“It is ironic that the accumulation of arms is one of the few expanding industries in a period of economic depression and gloom.”

“You can be a depressive and be happy, just as you can be a sober alcoholic.”

“It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.”

“The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias.”

“Chentlemen, you are vorried about the depression[sic]. You should not be. For capitalism, a depression is a good, cold douche.”

“First she studied her husband's flower arrangement. He had chosen the blossom of a single white wild rose and put a single pearl of water on the green leaf, and set it on red stones. Autumn is coming, he was suggesting with the flower, talking through the flower, do not weep for the time of fall, the time of dying when the earth begins to sleep; enjoy the time of beginning again and experience the glorious cool of the autumn air on this summer evening…soon the tear will vanish and the rose, only the stones will remain — soon you and I will vanish and only the stones will remain.”