Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think about many things mechanically, but you will get nothing from it.

It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.

Everything we do consciously remains for us.

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

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

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

The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.