As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.

Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of our life, and sometimes more truly a part of it for weal or woe than any happenings of the day.

The reason for such an “unreasonable” attitude with me is that I am not at all sure what will happen to me after death. I have good reasons to assume that things are not finished with death. Life seems to be an interlude in a long story.

Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.