“Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ‘lives’ his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.”

To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.

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.