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.

Our task is to educate the human being in such a way that he or she can bring to expression in the right way that which is living in the whole human being, and on the other side that which puts him/her into the world in the right way.

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

Not that which is inspires the creation, but that which may be; not the actual, but the possible.

There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.

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

A race or nation stands so much the higher, the more perfectly its members express the pure, ideal human type ... The evolution of man through the incarnations in ever higher national and racial forms is thus a process of liberation [leading to] an ideal future.