Quotes
"Money for the wise man: a servant in the pocket. To the unwise man: a master in the pocket."
"Every married man should frame this saying of Jesus: Blessed are the peacemakers. Of course it should be in the woman's room!"
"Every person has two sides: one white, one black. Never tell anyone about anyone's black side."
"We don't even need to be gardeners, we know that rose seeds grow into roses, melon seeds into melons, it's just a matter of choosing the right soil. Can not souls waiting to be reborn in the next world tell the future of our children, if they will? He who needs the degree to become a priest will not incarnate in a family whose children inherit a business. And he, for example, who has lived a slothful life, will need a busy life in the future to perfect himself, will not be born into a family in which it is said, 'Well, if we have a son, we will raise him to be a priest. He who has been haughty will seek a place where he is forced to humility. He who has been brutally humble will go to a family of archdukes. He who has been quarrelsome, will undertake endurance and suffering. He who was voracious will dress himself in rags. He who was a fornicator will take a vow of chastity. Every soul will find a place and a family suited to its development and qualities. Every soul chooses the soil where it can grow from the influences of childhood and youth into a new tree, rich in leaves. Climbing mountains seems a physical folly. Yet our life is always a climb. Jesus is still standing on the mountain today. Jesus is perfection. Everyone can know what level of perfection he or she or someone else is at. The more you understand Jesus, the more perfect you are. In the beginning, everyone is blind to him. All of a sudden his eyes become clear. Suddenly he stares. Once you start following him. We are all around the mountain. We all have to get up the mountain at some point."
"The chibouk is not the real pipe either. Only Turkish tobacco can be smoked from chibouk, and Turkish tobacco has such a pungent and heavy smoke that it fills not only the room but also the stomach. It is not fit for a real smoker either."
"He who wants to succeed in married life should always accept what the woman wants, but always do what he himself wants. The wife always accepts the explanation, because the main thing is that the husband does not contradict her, and even honours her by justifying and explaining why it could not have been otherwise."
"Never argue about God, the soul, immortality with anyone. He whose spirit is more developed than his body feels all these things anyway, and he whose spirit is less developed than his body, even Jesus Christ himself can speak to him, it cannot be proved to him/her."
"Two statements. - Wow! life is good! - Wow! life is hateful! Not a declaration of two different souls, but of two different digestions."
"Some theatres in the capital could also adapt their signage: The dumping ground of foreign drama literature"
"Three things you should never do in a hurry: 1. eating fish; 2. shaving; 3. getting married."
"You often hear it, or say it yourself: - I don't know how to express myself. I feel as if they were saying: - I have many pearls at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, - but I can't bring them up."
"He who has spent his whole life in carnal thoughts cannot understand the vision of spiritual men. He is like the peasant who digs a well and has never seen an artesian well, and speaks like one: - It cannot be true! Because I have dug three hundred wells, and not one of them has produced hot water. We must drill deep in our thinking, then we shall find the water of life."
"There are 96 quarter hours in a day. So if we divided the day into hundred parts, a hundredth of a day would be about a quarter of an hour. It could be called a small clock for the time being, and later, when the old clock has been forgotten, an hour. (1891.)"
"You will know people who live alone. Most of these have a reputation for being man-haters. But this is not always true. A misanthrope is always a bad man, and although he hates people, he lives among them. Perhaps he hates them because he lives among them. But he needs hatred, just as the poison in the belladona is one of the constituents of its life."
"It is interesting that Jesus calls the corporeal man dead. One of his disciples asks: - Let me go and bury my father. Jesus replies: - Follow me. Let the dead bury the dead. Jesus is not even understood by the bodily man. The gospels are just stories to them, or gibberish. But do not the child and the astronomer look at the sky with different eyes? The spiritual man understands the words of Jesus, and he understands the cry of his audience: - No man ever spoke like this!"
"Which one hundred writers should we choose to keep us company until death? Only travelling book agents have the answer ready. Some other people think that it is impossible to list a hundred such writers. Another writer is needed for the short man. Another for the tall man. Another for the woman. Different for the man. Another for the young. Different for the old. For the body at all times, at all ranks, one book is enough - the cookbook. But the soul develops till late old age, and goes up many steps. It is by his reading that any man may judge his progress. What a distance separates fairy tales from real stories! From interest in physical struggles! Our animal age from our spiritual age! The human soul is shed in books."
"Whenever I see the name of our king, I always stop to look at the I written in front of it. How can someone be first when there is no second? (Franz Joseph I)"
"The sky is not black at night. Only dark blue. Among the colours of the rainbow there is no black. Black is an earthly colour. In the hand of hatred is crap. In the hand of love is a gold-painting tool."
"It is unfortunate that secondary school education develops little character other than the humble. Pious teachings pick the bones out of a man and turn him into a sissy. Such a person is worthless. I have never seen a submissive, bowing, hand rubbing person as righteous and valuable. He who appears before you with every word a spiritual genuflection, such a man is either deceitful or a spiritual cripple. Beware if you feel powerless before someone. In such a case you are either hungry or your mind is tired. In such cases, call upon the sacred Energy or feel the touch of my hand on your shoulders: - Stretch out your chest, my son, you are a man, not a dog!"
"Most people think of death as annihilation because they see that everything that lives in nature dies: the grass, the tree, the beetle, the animal. - But you only see the body die, man!"