In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.