I consider myself second to none, since I have realized in myself the One alone.

All things that may seem to be exalting my position, they indeed lower me in my eyes.
The only thing exalting for me is the forgetting of myself entirely in the perfect vision of God.

There is nothing that I consider too good for me or too high to attain to;
on the contrary, all possible attainments seem within my reach,
since I have attained to the vision of God.

There is nothing that I feel too humiliating for me to do,
and there is no position, however exalted,
that can make me prouder than I am already in the pride of my Lord.

Neither does love exalt me, nor hate depress me, for all things to me seem natural.
Life for me is a dream that changes continually;
and when I withdraw my real self from the false, I know all things and yet stand remote.
So I rise above all changes of life.

It makes no difference to me if I am so praised that I am raised from earth to heaven,
nor if I am so blamed that I am thrown from the greatest heights to the depths of the earth.
Life to me is an ever-moving sea,
in which the waves of favour and disfavour constantly rise and fall.

To fall down does not break me or discourages me;
it only enables me to rise to a still higher sphere of life.

I could not have enjoyed virtue's beauty, if I had not known sin.

Every loss in life I consider as the throwing off of an old garment in order to put on a new one;
and the new garment has always been better than the old.

I have learned more by my faults than by my virtues.

If I had always acted aright I could not be human.

My intuition never fails me, but I fail whenever I do not listen to it.

Patience is the lesson I had given to me from the moment I stepped on the earth;
ever since I have tried to practise it, but there is more to be learned.

I blame no one for his wrongdoing, but neither do I encourage him in that direction.

In bringing happiness to others I feel the pleasure of God,
and for my negligence I feel myself blameworthy before Him.

Every soul stands before me as a world,
and the light of my spirit, falling upon it, brings clearly to view all it contains.

Nothing seems either too good or too bad,
I know no more distinction between saint and sinner,
since I behold the One single life manifested in all.

I consider my action toward every man as my action toward God,
and the action of every person toward me I take as an action of God.

So long as I act upon my own intuition I succeed,
but whenever I follow another's advice I go astray.

I work simply, not troubling about results.
My satisfaction is in accomplishing the work that is given to me to my best ability,
and I leave the effects to the cause.

Life in the world is most interesting to me,
but solitude away from the world is the longing of my soul.

I feel myself when I am by myself.

By respecting every person I meet, I worship God,
and in loving every soul on earth, I feel my devotion for Him.

There is nothing in life which pleases me more than pleasing others,
but it is difficult to please everyone.

I am ready to learn from those who come to teach me,
and willing to teach those who wish to learn.

I regard every obstacle on my part as an incentive to success.

I would have either Heaven or Hell, but not Purgatory.

I do not intend to teach my fellowmen, but to show them all I see.

Hail to my exile from the Garden of Eden to the earth.
If I had not fallen, I should not have had the opportunity of probing the depths of life.

At the moment when I shall be leaving this earth,
it is not the number of followers which will make me proud.
It is the thought that I have delivered His message to some souls that will console me,
and the feeling that it helped them through life that will bring me satisfaction.

I have not come to change humanity; I have come to help it on.

If anyone strikes my heart, it does not break but it bursts,
and the flame coming out of it becomes a torch on my path.

My deep sigh rises above as a cry of the earth,
and the answer comes from within as a message.