“It is in his pleasures that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.”

“He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.”

“Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.”

“Man was created for the sole purpose of rejoicing in God and deriving pleasure from the splendor of His Presence; for this is true joy and the greatest pleasure that can be found.”

“It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.”

“The world is so unhappy because it is ignorant of the true Self. Man's real nature is happiness. Happiness is inborn in the true Self. Man's search for happiness is an unconscious search for his true Self. The true Self is imperishable; therefore, when a man finds it, he finds a happiness which does not come to an end.”

“Remote from man, with God he passed the days;
Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.”

“Man abhors the absence of integration. He demands integration, and will create religions, achieve heroic self-sacrifice, pursue mad ambitions, or follow the ecstasy of danger, rather than live without. If society refuses him this satisfaction in a constructive form he will seize a destructive principle to which he can devote himself and will take revenge on the society that thought his only demand was pleasure.”

“All his leisure clothes were absurd — jokes, really — as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.”

“It’s what a man thinks is true which controls his actions, not what is really true.”