And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.

And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over.

What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?

And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.