When the spirit most closely approaches the physical earth, then we have the perception of fragrance.

For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.

The outer world, with all its phenomena, is filled with divine splendour, but we must have experienced the divine within ourselves, before we can discover it in our environment

You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.

We have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.

We must be educated in inner human modesty, so we can recognize that we are not, even for a moment, complete as human beings. Instead, we continue to develop from birth until death. We must recognize that every day of life has a special value, that it is not without purpose that we must learn to live through our thirties right after we have just gone through our twenties. We need to learn that each new day and each new year offers continual revelation.

Most naughtiness arises because the children are bored and lack a relationship with the teacher.