The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.

There exists only the present instant ... There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now.

To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process

Though one should live through all the time from Adam and all the time to come before the judgment day doing good works, yet he who, energising in his highest, purest part, crosses from time to eternity, verily in the sight of God this man conceives and does far more than anyone who lives throughout all past and future time, because this now includes the whole of time. One master says that in crossing over time into the now each power of the soul will surpass itself. . . .

Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground.

Our bodily food is changed into us, but our spiritual food changes us into it.