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

Reverence awakens in the soul a sympathetic power through which we attract qualities in the beings around us, which would otherwise remain concealed.

Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.

One can only understand history and all of social life, including today’s social life, if one pays attention to people’s racial characteristics. And one can only understand all that is spiritual in the correct sense if one first examines how this spiritual element operates within people precisely through the color of their skin.

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.

That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.

You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.