In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark.

The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.

As we are - the world is.

You yourself are the teacher, and the pupil, you're the master, you're the guru, you are the leader, you are everything! And, to understand is to transform what is.

Ugliness is a lack of harmony, assuredly. And evil is the same thing of course.

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.