The Eternal generates the One. The One generates the Two. The Two generates the Three. The Three generates all things.

Confidence is the greatest friend.

Who can wait quietly until the mud settles? Who can remain still until the moment of action?

Be the chief but never the lord.

Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.

Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm. To her, there is no self and other, and hence no one to be raised; no heaven and hell, and hence no destination.

When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether it is the student offering himself to the teacher, or the teacher offering herself to the student. One sees only two immaculate beings, reflecting one another like a pair of brilliant mirrors.