Sometimes our hard-earned wisdom fails us, our most astute philosophical analysis is barren, and the clever and meaningful phrases we have learned from our readings are disremembered. Even the consolation offered by our friends falls to the ground inert. It is at such times that we just must stand and take the blows. And rely on unknown and unseen powers to help us.


To love yourself properly is not to abandon yourself to the folly of the moment.


People reading these sayings may fear that eradicating something in themselves is giving up themselves. Not so! We are talking in these sayings not so much eradication as replacement and transference.


Do you ever pause to contrast what you are and what you could be?


When you are in the Light be careful that you don’t cast a shadow. It becomes necessary therefore, to remove the obstructions around you.


Oh, we can, if we so choose, drive the spirit out and away from us. But if we do so be prepared for life to lose its savor.


What may taste so good in the beginning may later turn into a sour stomach. Be careful, therefore, what you eat.


Death is the final detachment from an old consciousness in order that you may have a new one.


It may be trite but it is true, nevertheless: Don’t put off until tomorrow what should be done today.


Don’t reject a truth just because it is trite.


A sure way to incur the wrath of life is to always say “I” instead of “We.”


When a person finally succeeds in renouncing all the superfluous claims of his troubled ego he will begin seeing life in ways he never saw it before, and he will learn that yesterday’s terrible offense has turned into today’s mere trifle, and tomorrow’s infinite blessing.


If there is anything that depth psychology, acute philosophical analysis, and deep pondering teaches us it is that the concrete human being has the capacity to develop spiritual attributes and lead a better life.