A Despairing Situation

With the right understanding, it is impossible to despair. With the wrong understanding, it is inevitable.

A Tempting Offer

The desire to teach other men how to live would be laughable if it were not so pitiable.

An Insane Proposition

It would be insane not to desire Mystical Union while at the same time Mystical Union can never be the object of desire.

Jolted Awake

Enlightenment is the shocking realization that you exist.

Growing Pains

Suffering deepens the roots of our compassion and is as necessary for our growth as is the rain to the mighty trees of the forest.

Red Alert

We cannot become wise by reading. Repeating a truth we read in a book is not the same as understanding.

In fact, it might be worse because the repetition of the insight of others might deceive us into thinking that we know.

Mentally Unbalanced

If an egotist is, by that very fact, a madman then there is no such thing as mental health.