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All the Messengers of God are the same and yet they are many; that God manifests in his Messengers, but that they are not God.
There are not different truths in the world, for truth is one and the same at all times and in every place.
In proportion as our own mind is enlarged, we discover a greater number of men of originality. Common-place people see no difference between one man and another.
Miracles are within us, natural facts which some call supernormal.
Great endeavors and hard struggles await those who are converted, but afterwards inexpressible joy. If you want to light a fire, you are troubled at first by smoke, and your eyes water. But in the end you achieve your aim. Now it is written: Our God is a consuming fire. So we must light the divine fire in us with tears and struggle.
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
Nothing is more hidden from us than the illusion which lives with us day by day, and our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.
When the ego is brought to its knees in the dust, humiliated in its own eyes, however esteemed or feared, envied or respected in other men’s eyes, the way is opened for grace’s influx. Be assured that this complete humbling of the inner man will happen again and again and again until he is purified of all pride.
If a man empties himself of himself, who can harm him?
If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in your power to erase this judgment now. If anything in your own nature gives you pain, who hinders you from correcting your opinion?
Instead of every man directing his energies to freeing himself, to transforming his conception of life, people seek for an external united method of gaining freedom, and continue to rivet their chains faster and faster.
All creatures live bewildered, save some few.
When you deceive yourself that you work for the good of all, it makes matters worse, for you should not be guided by your own ideas of what is good for others. A man who claims to know what is good for others is dangerous.
Genius is eternal patience.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.
Hero-worship is strongest where there is the least regard for human freedom.
Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West, and then seek.
We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves. Fear, desire, and hope are always pushing us towards the future.
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self, for what we wish to believe, we readily believe, but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.
