You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe your longing, means simply the wish to be relieved of your so-called personality. That is the prison where you lie.

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

"For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that is eternal. It will become evident that formulations in words and the handling on of these formulations through writing are not only important aids but actually the only means by which humanity can have a history and continuing consciousness of itself."

No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he sought, such a man could approve of every doctrine, each and every one, every path, every goal; nothing separated him any longer from all those thousands of others who lived in the eternal, who breathed the Divine.