What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.

Buddha and Christ were second-rate heroes. The greatest men that ever live pass away unknown. They put forth no claims for themselves, establish no schools or systems in their name. They never create any stir but just melt down in love.

We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.

Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.

Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on us," as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. "Self is the Saviour of self, none else."

This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite.

Satisfied is no test of truth. Actuality is steadily far from idiosyncratic secure.