Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.

If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.

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.

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

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.

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

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.