You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there’s the least resistance, you lash yourself.

The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.