“...for one cannot enter an image unless one makes oneself imaginary”

“He knows that every piece of selfknowledge which one cannot keep to oneself makes one smaller and smaller, he knows that he who cannot keep silent his wishes to be recognized in the greatness of his selfknowledge which is no selfknowledge if it cannot be kept silent, and one becomes hypersensitive one feels betrayed because one wants to be recognized by people, one becomes ridiculous ambitious in inverse ratio to ones selfknowledge”

“Yoga powers.
To make oneself invisible or small.
To become gigantic and reach to the farthest things.
To change the course of nature.
To place oneself anywhere in space or time.
To summon the dead.
To exalt senses and perceive inaccessible images, of events on other worlds,
in one's deepest inner mind, or in the minds of others.”

“perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.”

“In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.”

“Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.”

“To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.”

“Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.”

“Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself — there is no wish I make more often.”

“Moral influence means persuading another that one can make that other more uncomfortable than that other can make oneself.”