He was one of those men whom success never mollified, whose enjoyment of a point gained always demanded some hoarse note of triumph from his own trumpet.

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.

On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.

...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.

The slightest cooperation with God's grace can provoke a massive spiritual change.

Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort.

When everything comes from Jesus, it is spiritual insanity to have any form of pride.

Fools do not acknowledge God, the proud reject Him, the wise embrace Him, and the righteous worship Him.

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-beings, through no fault, and no merit, of my own. The cause of this may well be the desire, unattainable for many, to understand the few ideas to which I have with my feeble powers attained through ceaseless struggle.

This is how one ought to see, I repeated yet again. And I might have added, These are the sort of things one ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves, sufficient in their suchness, not acting a part, not trying, insanely, to go it alone, in isolation from the Dharma-Body, in Luciferian defiance of the grace of God.