"I swear to you gentlemen, that to..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.”

“Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.”

“A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort”

“So it is essential to bring more consciousness into your life in ordinary situations when everything is going relatively smoothly. In this way, you grow in presence power. It generates an energy field in you and around you of a high vibrational frequency. No unconsciousness , no negativity, no discord or violence can enter that field and survive, just as darkness cannot survive in the presence of light.”

“Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.”

“Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.”

“Everything is as it is at any moment. There's no way of arguing, because you are arguing with reality - the isness of this moment. You can argue with it, but that's suffering.”

“Everything can be borne except contempt.”

“Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.”