Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.