“Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.”

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.

The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and ‘consciousness’ cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and ‘will’ cannot evolve involuntarily.

From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.

Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.

As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.

Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.

Patience is the mother of will.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.

Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.

If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.

If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.