To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.

When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.

Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.

People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.