One’s inner light alone is the means, naught else. When this inner light is kept alive, it is not affected by the darkness of inertia.
To understand oneself profoundly, one needs balance. Neither renunciation nor acquiescence.
Any caterpillar who tried to “know himself” would never become a butterfly.
That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
All the lights of the world cannot be compared even to a ray of inner light of the Self.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
The Self, having in dreams enjoyed the pleasures of sense, gone hither and thither, experienced good and evil, hastens back to the state of waking from which he started. As a man passes from dream to wakefulness, so does he pass from this life to the next.
The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.
