That which is easy is bad for your inner life.

To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.

Try to understand what I am saying: everything is dependent on everything else, everything is connected, nothing is separate. Therefore everything is going in the only way it can go. If people were different everything would be different. They are what they are, so everything is as it is.

We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it demands such intensity of effort, that to attempt it any old way and amongst other things is impossible. The person who undertakes this task must put it first in his life, which is not so long that he can afford to squander it on trifles.

You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.

Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.

The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.