“Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.”

Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.

Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.

In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture

When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.

The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.

You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.

There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.

The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.

The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.

Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.

The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.

An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.

Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.

But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.

Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.

The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness.

For if we do not take it upon ourselves to remedy in time to the moral colapse (or bankruptcy) that already threaten, the whole civilisation will risks to disappear.

Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have failed too much to appreciate, and that which would be fatal to fail to appreciate any longer (“pluslongtemps”, Fr.).

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.

Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling.

Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative – that we’re just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different – that this is human destiny, this is human nature.

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are.

A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women’s movement, for instance, becoming “support-groups” or therapy groups.