We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them..

Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other..

Man is a machine, but a very peculiar machine. He is a machine which, in right circumstances, and with right treatment, can know that he is a machine….

Besides, all evil is relative. Something that is evil at one level of evolution can be good at an earlier stage because it provides the essential sti….

Begin with the possible: begin with one step. There is always a limit you cannot do more than you can do. If you try to do too much you will do noth….

A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined..

Think about death. You do not know how much time remains to you. And remember that if you do not become different, everything will be repeated again,….

a man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something.

The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious..

Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified..

When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake..

It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning..

In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most div….

I mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way you want to do one thing and get the res….

Seek the Path, do not seek attainment, Seek for the Path within yourself. Do not expect to hear the truth from others, nor to see it, or read it in b….

Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself..

The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them..

When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at him….

Two things can get people to make efforts: if people want to get something, or if they want to get rid of something. Only, in ordinary conditions, wi….

Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie..

Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if any at all. What ….