Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.
Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.
It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.
A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
One of society’s absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.
Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
Genuine effort is success.
You must never fear anything at all.
There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
Who asks a king for a penny?
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.