Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each case it seems to be taken for granted that this I belongs to the Whole, to the whole man, and that a thought, a desire, or an aversion is expressed by this Whole.

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

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

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.

A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.

The most difficult thing is to know what we do know, and what we do not know.

Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem.