The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.

When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture

The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies.

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.

You have no obligations to your former self, they are dumber than you and they don’t exist.

Negative emotions, like depression or anxiety, have been shown to affect our immune system. Stress impedes wound healing.

There's no ''Self made'' we're all dependent.

The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable.

Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

In 1910, eighty-two-year-old Leo Tolstoy flees from his wife and dies in a railway station of exposure.

My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection.

I'd like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom.

I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.

Do you think that the man-loving God has given you much so that you could use it only for your own benefit? No, but so that your abundance might supply the lack of others.