That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.

The world is our school for spiritual discovery.

The ego will always be able to find ways to keep the aspirant busy in self-improvement, thus binding him or her to the fact that the self is still there behind all the improvements. For why should the ego kill itself?

When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting achievements too fabricated. It is the beginners and intermediates who carry this heavy and unnecessary burden, who involve themselves to the point of becoming neurotics.

God needs no worship, no praise, no thanksgiving. It is man himself who needs the benefit to be derived from these activities.

Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not prouder, which the thought that he ought to have been above these faults makes him.

That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.