Suppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life. There is nothing we can DO to gain psychic beauty. It already exists without our effort. We need only be where we belong, that is, in self-union. Then, beauty IS.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.

We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.