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Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
There is no one who hinders you from always doing and saying the things which are according to the nature of which you are a part.
The partial becomes whole, the crooked becomes straight, the empty becomes full, the worn out becomes new.
It is only when everything, even love fails that with a flash, man finds out how vain, how dream-like is this world. Then he catches a glimpse of the beyond. It is only by giving up this world that the other comes, never through holding on to this one.
What a light is here for those that can bear or love the light!
The only elevation of a human being consists in the exercise, growth, energy of the higher principles and powers of his soul. A bird may be shot upwards to the skies by a foreign force; but it rises, in the true sense of the word, only when it spreads its own wings and soars by its own living power.
His eyes can read men’s inmost hearts, and all the art of hypocrites cannot decide him. His sharp discernment sees things clear and true.
That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable bliss beyond imagination, for absolute nothingness represents absolute bliss.
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
Be cheerful, also, and seek not external help, nor the peace which others give. A man must stand straight, and not be kept straight by others.
The first step to self-knowledge is self-distrust. Nor can we attain to any kind of knowledge, except by a like process.
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.
Truth is too simple for us… we do not like those who unmask our illusions.
Thoughts held in mind produce after their kind.
Why does no man confess his vices? Because he is still in them. It is for a waking man to tell of his dreams.
He who is firm in will moulds the world to himself.
It is time to undervalue what he has valued, to dispossess himself of what he has acquired, and with Caesar to take in his hand the army, the empire and Cleopatra, and say, “All these will I relinquish, if you will show me the fountains of the Nile.”
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.
