Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet.
Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day.
What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life.
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every other genuine happiness as completely as one fluttering blue lycaenid butterfly resembles another.
Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.
I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.
I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God’s name is Abraxas.
I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.
A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement – yet it had been the truth.
I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I’ve got.
Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it.
Our god’s name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.
My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal.
Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
I have always been a great dreamer. In dreams I have always been more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of my health and energy.
And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.
Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don’t take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action.
I can think. I can wait. I can fast.