This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.

Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice.

There is no end to renunciation.

Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one melt the other, that into the next higher, that into mind, that into spirit, and then you are spirit.

This earth is higher than all the heavens; this is the greatest school in the universe.

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas.