People who are unable to use their hands skillfully for all kinds of work, will not become good thinkers and will behave awkwardly in life. It is not the head alone, but the whole human being that is a logician. Activities demanding manual and bodily skill, such as knitting, leads to the enhancement of the faculty of judgment. This faculty is actually developed least of all by exercises in logic.

If a child has been able in his play to give up his whole loving being to the world around him, he will be able, in the serious tasks of later life, to devote himself with confidence and power to the service of the world.

I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close.

If we can simply distinguish between the different successive stages of evolution, it is possible to see primeval events within the earthly events of the present.

For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure.

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

When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is eternal and unlimited by birth and death. Once we have experienced this eternal part in us, we can no longer doubt its existence. Meditation is thus the way to knowing and beholding the eternal, indestructible, essential centre of our being.