To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.

Physical education for the body to be effective must be rigorous and detailed, far sighted and methodological. This will be translated into habits. These habits should be controlled and disciplined, while remaining flexible enough to adapt themselves to circumstances and to the needs of growth and development of the being.

Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction.

The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.

Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.

I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me.

There should of course be left a field of work for the sake of experiment but at all times one must remember that there will always remain open a possibility of err.