“Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.”

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.

If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.

In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.

You can experience consciousness now by experiencing the fact that you exist.

Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.

Take assertiveness training, get paid what you’re worth, join a consciousness raising-group.

We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.

The existence of a higher power with any consciousness or interest in the human race or ability to punish or reward humans for their moral choices or that there is any reason other than fear to believe in any version of an afterlife, I will give you my piano, one of my legs and my wife.