Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to give in such a way that the other is able to receive, and be grateful. When Love has matured and, through a dissolution of the self into light, become a radiance, then shall the Lover be liberated from dependence upon the Beloved, and the Beloved also be made perfect by being liberated from the Lover.

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door.