The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.

And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well.

If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else.

The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist.

Those who own much have much to fear.

Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past.

Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.