Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow together, when through long days they have ploughed the stony ground buried beneath the common yoke of a common grief. It is then that they know one another and feel one another and feel with one another in their common anguish, and so they pity one another and love one another.

Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.

Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.

The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.

May God deny you peace but give you glory!

Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.