Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.

Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

Factual evidence can never “prove” a hypothesis; it can only fail to disprove it, which is what we generally mean when we say, somewhat inexactly, that the hypothesis is “confirmed” by experience.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Ignorance never settle a question.