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

Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural. The one is a sign of bondage but the other, of freedom.

Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism.

The Quest not only begins in the heart but also ends there.

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

All methods and techniques - and of course all human beings who propound them - are merely instruments to help the student obtain a methodless, technique-free, teacherless state.

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.