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 my Lord.

  
  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 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 favor and disfavor constantly rise and fall.
  
  
  To fall down does not break me or discourage 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 practice it, but there is more to be learnt.

  
  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 towards every man as my action
towards God; and the action of every person towards 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 which 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 ! 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 path as an incentive to success. I would have either heaven or hell, but not purgatory.

  
  I do not intend to teach my fellow-men, 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 an answer comes from within as a message.
  I am a tide in the sea of life, bearing towards the shore all who come within my enfoldment.