Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to 'learn.' What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying 'Know thyself.

The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.

Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.

The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself.

The cause of every anomaly can be found in woman.

Only super-efforts count.

With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.

I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life. There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an Outer-world struggle...you must make an intentional contact between these two worlds; then you can crystallize data for the Third World, the World of the Soul.

If you are working inwardly, Nature will help you. For the man who is working, Nature is sister of charity; she brings him what he needs for his work. If you need money for your work, even if you do nothing to get it, the money will come to you from all sides.

The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.

You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape.

I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.

Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.

From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.

Common aim is stronger than blood.

Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

Man has no individual i. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small "i"s, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming into contact, or, on the contrary, hostile to each other, mutually exclusive and incompatible. Each minute, each moment, man is saying or thinking, "i". And each time his i is different. just now it was a thought, now it is a desire, now a sensation, now another thought, and so on, endlessly. Man is a plurality. Man's name is legion.

Now everything that you do is written in red or black in Angel Gabriel's book. Not for everyone is this record kept, but only for those who have taken a position of responsibility. There is a Law of Sins, and if you do not fulfil all your obligations, you will pay.

As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.

Live a life of friction. Let yourself be disturbed as much as possible, but observe.

There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.