“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”

We discover ourselves through others.

We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

A man’s hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

I live in my deepest hell and from there I cannot fall any further.

In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.

The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.

Nothing is possible without love, For love puts one in a mood to risk everything.

Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide.

Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality.

Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.

I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.