“Men need images. Lacking them they invent idols. Better then to found the images on realities that lead the true seeker to the source.”

The only active force that arises out of possession is fear of losing the object of possession.

In every vital activity it is the path that matters.

The way of knowledge is narrow.

An answer if profitable in proportion to the intensity of the quest.

Understanding develops by degrees.

What reveals itself to me ceases to be mysterious for me alone: if I unveil it to anyone else, he hears mere words which betray the living sense: Profanation, but never revelation.

True teaching is not an accumulation of knowledge; it is an awaking of consciousness which goes through successive stages.

Every man is rich in excuses to safeguard his prejudices, his instincts, and his opinions.

Grain must return to the earth, die, and decompose for new growth to begin.

By knowing one reaches belief. By doing one gains conviction. When you know, dare.

Everyone finds himself in the world where he belongs. The essential thing is to have a fixed point from which to check its reality now and then.

The best and shortest road towards knowledge of truth is Nature.

Not the greatest Master can go even one step for his disciple; in himself he must experience each stage of developing consciousness. Therefore he will know nothing for which he is not ripe.

For every joy there is a price to be paid.

The man who knows how to lead one of his brothers towards what he has known may one day be saved by that very brother.

The first thing necessary in teaching is a master; the second is a pupil capable of carrying on the tradition.