Listen, you have now found the conditions in which the desire of your heart can become the reality of your being. Stay here, until you acquire a force in you that nothing can destroy. Then you'll need to go back into life, and there you will measure yourself constantly with forces which will show you your place.

Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.

Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.

The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.

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

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.