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One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

You must learn to perceive as your self that which lies outside you. Looking only within oneself leads to a hardening in oneself, to a higher egotism.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.