Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had powerful transpersonal experiences and continues to subscribe to the materialistic monism of Western science.

Only the one who does not question is safe from making a mistake.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organise peace on this planet

I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.