Romantic souvenirs had a way of attaching themselves to one when one wanted to move on, but they were not to be taken seriously.

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.

During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.

Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the courtiers of cultured princes. These might take the form of chess games in which the pieces and squares had secret meanings in addition to their usual functions.