A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

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.

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.