"You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost."

"You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have to be held for several minutes. You are then between time and the time-less - waiting for the unknown, which will come but cannot be willed."

"Reasonable acceptance, our way of living, is imperfect. But God, if God exists, must be perfect and beyond reason."

"To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled."

"This process of self-discovery is scientific and the invariable rule of science has to be applied - experiment and observe."

"One of the greatest steps in self-discovery is to see that you are a machine. Only the few who have real knowledge will admit to being machines."

"Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind."

"When self-knowledge reveals the answer it will be a living fact in your own experience. At any time you wish to experience the answer it will be there, just as you can say 'It is night' or 'It is day'. You will know, while the rest of the world is arguing and speculating."

"If God exists you must have the experience of God in the moment; otherwise you are absent and God cannot exist for you."

"Worry is a purely selfish expression."

"You live, enjoy life and suffer according to that belief. What you believe, you live; or you do not believe it."

"You can experience consciousness now by experiencing the fact that you exist."

"Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man."

"…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad."

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."

"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."

"Even a fool learns something once it hits him."

"For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother"

"A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time"

"There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends."

"How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!"

"Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this."

"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for."

"Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter."

"Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death"

"I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!"

"We men are wretched things."

"Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans."

"Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share."

"Some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind"

"The journey is the thing."

"Each man delights in the work that suits him best."

"Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate "No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny."."

"There will be killing till the score is paid."

"Life is largely a matter of expectation."

"No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born."

"My name is Nobody."

"If you serve too many masters, you'll soon suffer."

"The blade itself incites to deeds of violence."

"...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance."

"Youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement."

"No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny."

"Out of sight,out of mind"

"Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly."

"And empty words are evil."

"Few sons are like their fathers--most are worse, few better."

"There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth."

"Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this."

"Immortals are never alien to one another."

"Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile"