To every instant there is a correspondence in something outside time. This world here and now cannot be followed by a Beyond, for the Beyond is eternal, hence it cannot be in temporal contact with this world here and now.

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.