The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of each of us would some day depend upon our winning or losing a game of chess. Do you not think that we should all consider it to be our primary duty to learn at least the names of the pieces and how to position them on the chessboard?

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh air, he will have to overcome certain physical repugnance before he can bring himself to put those principles into practice.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!