Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams.

The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.

You can understand other people only as much as you understand yourself and only on the level of your own being. This means you can judge other people's knowledge but you cannot judge their being. You can see in them only as much as you have in yourself. But people always make the mistake of thinking they can judge other people's being. In reality, if they wish to meet and understand people of a higher development than themselves they must work with the aim of changing their being.

Divide in yourself the mechanical from the conscious, see how little there is of the conscious, how seldom it works, and how strong is the mechanical - mechanical attitudes, mechanical intentions, mechanical thoughts, mechanical desires.

a man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something

There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.

One cannot keep all old views and opinions and acquire new ones.