Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am...' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished himself to half of what he is; and what is said further, diminishes him totally; nothing more of him is left afterwards.

If someone strikes my heart, it does not break, but it bursts, and the flame coming out of it becomes a torch on my path.

For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood, the value is lost, be it the lowest thing or the highest thing.

What one really wants is attracted by one, and one is attracted by what one wants.

It is a presumption on the part of man when he demands in words an explanation of God.

Spiritual progress is the changing of the point of view.

Once you have linked yourself with love, a flood of inspiration is revealed to you, whatever the subject, whatever the problem in life may be. Whatever it be that your eye casts its glance upon, it will disclose itself. Then you are on the real road, and what a joy this is!