Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.

Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people.

Look deeply. Don't miss the inherent quality and value of everything.

I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?