The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book?
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.