We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.

Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other.

Effort plus motive equals result.

I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new.

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

Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.

When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.