I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought.

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.

Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.