The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.

I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha." He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time.

And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.

The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not venture to think of writing them down, and then in the morning they vanished; and yet they lay hidden within me like the hard kernel within an old brittle husk.