If we cut open the bud of a beautiful rose in order to see how it is 'packed' and what it is going to look like, what sort of a bloom will we get?

The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the shell and the flesh.

To have knowledge and to know are two different things, and one is possible without the other.

That we do not comprehend or accept something does not invalidate its truth.

In the spiritual search doubt is beneficial, a closed mind is not. Doubt used wisely assists enlightenment; a closed mind assists ignorance.

Mind is the Soul speaking and Conscience is the Spirit speaking.

The purpose of human life is the dissolution of the soul and the revelation of the Spirit.