“Without self-knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave, and the plaything of the forces acting upon him.”

                                                         In Search of the Miraculous (pg. 104)

“Fusion, inner unity, is obtained by means of ‘friction,’ by the struggle between ‘yes’ and ‘no’ in man. If a man lives without inner struggle, if everything happens in him without opposition, if he goes wherever he is drawn or wherever the wind blows, he will remain such as he is. But if a struggle begins in him, and particularly if there is a definite line in this struggle, then, gradually, permanent traits begin to form themselves, he begins to ‘crystallize.'”

                                                                In Search of the Miraculous (pg. 32)

 “Self-study is the work or the way which leads to self-knowledge….The chief method of self-study is self-observation. Without properly applied self-observation a man will never understand the connection and the correlation between the various functions of his machine, will never understand how and why on each separate occasion everything in him ‘happens.'”

In Search of the Miraculous (pg. 105)

 “The third state of consciousness is self-remembering or self-consciousness or consciousness of one’s being. It is usual to consider that we have this state of consciousness or that we can have it if we want it. Our science and philosophy have overlooked the fact that we do not possess this state of consciousness and that we cannot create it in ourselves by desire or decision alone.”

                                                            In Search of the Miraculous (pg. 141)

 “Therefore a man who wants to awake must look for other people who also want to awake and work together with them….The work must be organized and it must have a leader…a man who has in his time passed through such organized work himself.”

In Search of the Miraculous (pg. 222)

 “The first fundamental law of the universe is the law of three forces, or three principles, or, as it is often called, the law of three. According to this law every action, every phenomenon in all worlds without exception, is the result of a simultaneous action of three forces—the positive, the negative, and the neutralizing.”

In Search of the Miraculous (pg. 122)