"The story of mankind is in you, the vast experience, the deep-rooted fears, anxieties, sorrow, pleasure and all the beliefs that man has accumulated throughout the millenia. You are that book."

The Book of Life, Intro


"The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality, or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosophers or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself and that is why you must know yourself."

Freedom From The Known, p.10-11

"All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary."

Freedom from the Known, p.21


"...We want to be told. One of the most curious things in the structure of our pscyhe is that we all want to be told because we are the result of the propaganda of ten thousand years. We want to have our thinking confirmed and corroborated by another, whereas to ask a question is to ask it of yourself.

What I say has very little value. You will forget it the moment you shut this book, or you will remember and repeat certain phrases, or you will compare what you have read here with some other book – but you will not face your own life.

And that is all that matters – your life, your self, your pettiness, your shallowness, your brutality, your violence, your greed, your ambition, your daily agony and endless sorrow - that is what you have to understand and nobody on earth or in heaven is going to save you from it but yourself."

Freedom From the Known, p.121


"The world is you and you are the world."

Unknown source


"In oneself lies the whole world, and if you know how to look and learn, then the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either that key or the door to open, except yourself."

Biography of K by Mary Lutyens, Vol III The Open Door, p.158


"You are the world, the neighbour, the friend, the so-called enemy. If you would understand, you must first understand yourself, for in you is the root of all understanding. In you is the beginning and the end. If you are very clear, if you are inwardly a light unto yourself, you will never follow anyone"

Unknown source


"Experience requires no interpreters. Let no man interpret the experience of life to you except yourself."

Early Writings, from Harmonios Living, Vol.IV