Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.

This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.

The science of logic never made a man reason rightly, and the science of ethics never made a man behave rightly. The most such sciences can do is to help us to catch ourselves up and check ourselves, if we start to reason or to behave wrongly; and to criticise ourselves more articulately after we have made mistakes.

The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

You can't out-perform your self-image.