The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes.

[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.

Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.

In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.

A man could be in a throne and have no attachment at all; another one could be in rags and have many attachments.

Man is the greatest being that ever can be.

Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.