5-1 You can have all good things, wealth, friends, kindness, love to give and love to receive once you have learned not to be blinded by them; learned to escape from disappointment, and from repugnance at the idea that things are not as you want them to be.

5-2 The truth need not be veiled, for it veils itself from the eyes of the ignorant.

5-3 No man should allow his mind to be a vehicle for others to use; he who does not direct his own mind lacks mastery.

5-4 Rest of mind is as necessary as rest of body, and yet we always keep the former in action.

5-5 Those who have given deep thoughts to the world are those who have controlled the activity of their minds.

5-6 Unity in realization is far greater than unity in variety.

5-7 The afterlife is like a gramophone: man's mind brings the records; if they are hard, the instrument produces harsh notes; if beautiful, then it will sing beautiful songs. It will produce the same records that man has experienced in this life.

5-8 He who depends upon his eyes for sight, his ears for hearing, and his mouth for speech, he is still dead.

5-9 We cover our spirit under our body, our light under a bushel; we never allow the spirit to become conscious of itself.

5-10 When we devote ourselves to the thought of God, all illumination and revelation is ours.

5-11 God-communication is the best communication that true spiritualism can teach us.

5-12 The mystic desires that which Omar Khayyam calls wine, the wine of Christ, after drinking which, no one will ever thirst.

5-13 Our limited self is a wall separating us from the self of God.

5-14 The wisdom and justice of God are within us, yet they are far away, hidden by the veil of the limited self.

5-15 He who looks for a reward is smaller than his reward; he who has renounced a thing has risen above it.

5-16 The poverty of one who has renounced is real riches compared with the riches of one who holds them fast.

5-17 Love for God is the expansion of the heart, and all actions that come from the lover of God are virtues; they cannot be otherwise.

5-18 God is the ideal that raises mankind to the utmost height of perfection.

5-19 He is wise who treats an acquaintance as a friend, and he is foolish who treats a friend as an acquaintance, and he is impossible who treats friends and acquaintances as strangers; you cannot help him.

5-20 Insight into life is the real religion, which alone can help men to understand life.

5-21 The realization that the whole life must be give and take is the realization of the spiritual truth and fact of true democracy; not until this spirit is formed in the individual can the whole world be elevated to the higher grade.

5-22 The perfect life is following one's own ideal, not in checking those of others; leave everyone to follow his own ideal.

5-23 Every man's desire is according to his evolution; that which he is ready for is the desirable thing for him.

5-24 Discussion is for those who say, What I say is right, and what you say is wrong. A sage never says such a thing; hence, there is no discussion.

5-25 Tolerance does not come by learning, but by insight; by understanding that each one should be allowed to travel along the path which is suited to his temperament.

5-26 So long as a man has a longing to obtain any particular object, he cannot go further than that object.

5-27 Every man's path is for himself; let him accomplish his own desires, that he may thus be able to rise above them to the eternal goal.

5-28 The control of self means the control of everything.

5-29 God is love; when love is awakened in the heart, God is awakened there.