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Hope of consciousness is strength
Hope of feelings is slavery
Hope of body is disease.
All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson (1950)
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.
In Search of the Miraculous (1949)
I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
All and Everything: Views from the Real World (1973)
Remember your self always and everywhere.
In right knowledge the study of man must proceed on parallel lines with the study of the world, and the study of the world must run parallel with the study of man.
In Search of the Miraculous (1949)
In speaking of evolution it is necessary to understand from the outset that no mechanical evolution is possible. The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness.
In Search of the Miraculous (1949)
Love of consciousness evokes the same in response
Love of feeling evokes the opposite
Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson (1950)
One of man’s important mistakes, one which must be remembered, is his illusion in regard to his I.
In Search of the Miraculous (1949)
Socrates’ words, “Know thyself” remain for all those who seek true knowledge and being.
All and Everything: Views from the Real World (1973)
Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
In Search of the Miraculous (1949)
Most prayers have nothing in common with petitions.
In Search of the Miraculous (1949)
Thus they have a good side as well as a bad side.
All and Everything: Views from the Real World (1973)
This is exactly what people do not understand.
In Search of the Miraculous (1949)
Faith of consciousness is freedom
Faith of feeling is weakness
Faith of body is stupidity.
All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson (1950)
Love of God—but indifference to the saints.
All and Everything: Meetings with Remarkable Men (1963)
Objective knowledge, the idea of unity included, belongs to objective consciousness. The forms which express this knowledge when perceived by subjective consciousness are inevitably distorted and, instead of truth, they create more and more delusions.
In Search of the Miraculous (1949)
By liberation is meant the liberation which is the aim of all schools, all religions, at all times.
All and Everything: Views from the Real World (1973)
Therefore if his actions are opposed to those which are demanded by a given religion he cannot assert that he belongs to that religion.
In Search of the Miraculous (1949)
I have mentioned only these two as the most fundamental.
All and Everything: Views from the Real World (1973)
Personally I would advise you to try freeing yourselves and to do so without unnecessary theorizing, by simple reasoning, active reasoning, within yourselves.
All and Everything: Views from the Real World (1973)