Action without wisdom, without clear awareness of the world as it really is, can never improve anything. - Alan Watts

There are various levels above and below the human through which the individual soul may pass in the course of its reincarnations — the angelic, the titanic, the animal, the purgatories, and the realm of the frustrated ghosts.

Lao-tzu, that master of the law of reversed effort, who declared that those who justify themselves do not convince, that to know truth one must get rid of knowledge, and that nothing is more powerful and creative than emptiness — from which men shrink.

He comes back because he sees the two worlds are the same, the transcendental world and the every day world