“When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate.”

“I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner reality.”

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

“Whatever happiness and peace that one knows in one's life is generally so fragile that it is always subservient to the external situation. So most of your lives go in trying to manage a perfect external situation which is just impossible to do. No human being is ever capable of creating a perfect external situation because the outside situation will never be hundred percent in your control, no matter how powerful a human being you are. So yoga focuses on the inner situation. If you can create a perfect inward situation, no matter what the external situation, you can be in perfect bliss and peace.”

“Fate is how your life unfolds when you let fear determine your choices. A path of destiny reveals itself to you, however, when you confront your fear and make conscious choices.”

“The highest degree of consciousness, the crassest form of 'false consciousness' always manifests itself when the conscious mastery of economic phenomena appears to be at its greatest.”

“Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.”

“The blackest Ink of Fate, sure, was my Lot,
And, when she writ my Name, she made a blot.”

“People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.”

“For this reason, all the experiments in this book should be supplemented with a healthy outgoing attitude toward other people and relationships. If you are already a withdrawn, introspective person, you should make efforts to relate yourself with others through outside activities. This will ensure a balanced growth of your abilities, and the gradual acceptance of your inner abilities by your conscious mind.”