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.

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

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

You catch a fairly young field-vole and flay it... We take the skin, when Venus stands in the sign of the scorpion, and combust the skin... Now take the ash, which you got this way, and pepper it out on the fields.

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

In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy.

The smallest thing in its rightful place can lead to the highest goals.