Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.

What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.

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

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.

Practice love first on animals, they are more sensitive.

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

With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.