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

All who have come to me must have enema each day.

It is very difficult also to sacrifice one’s suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.

Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.

It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the ‘I Am,’ our real presence, can awaken.

Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.

He who has gotten rid of the disease of “tomorrow” has a chance of achieving what he is here for.

Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.

My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.

With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.

Life is real only then, when “I am”.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.

Only super-efforts count.

Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

In general, we are sort of conditioned to see a different body type as acceptable and maybe look away when the other body type arrives.

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.