Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.

The only reason you do not do great things is because you timidly cling to small things. Will you let loose of small things and bear the uncertainty of having nothing for a while? Do this and eventually you will do great things.

Self awakening enables you to see the human scene as it is, not as it appears to be, which frees you of its chaos.

Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.

If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.

Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.

Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.