When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.

If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?

Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

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

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.