Detachment is the beginning of mastery.

To make a revolution is not in the grain of our people's nature.

What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being.

Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.

They proved to me by convincing reasons that God does not exist; Afterwards I saw God, for he came and embraced me. And now what am I to believe- the reasoning of others or my own experience? Truth is what the soul has seen and experienced; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

Thy goal, the road thou choosest are thy fate.

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.