The Book of Dialogues

“You should rejoice more over every scintilla of wisdom your spirit gives to you than the burden of knowledge ‘acquired through learning’! – 
You should rejoice more over every tiny success your spirit offers up to you than over all the knowledge acquired through learning and skilfulness of the earth! – 
You should shun those who have to have learnt everything in order to master it! – – 
You should shun those who have to have ‘heard’ or ‘read’ everything in order to know it! – – –

Your spirit should always be free, and in freedom be able to try out its powers! 
Your spirit should always be lord and master of all your powers of the soul, bringing them together under its control! – – – 
Truly, your soul has profound powers, which no one has ever fully explored; your body too has many hidden strengths which no one has yet fully recognised in himself! – – 
I want to free your body and make it live; I want to give the powers of your soul to you as servants ever ready to serve you! 
Books should not give you the wisdom you attain and you should not borrow from others your abilities! – – – 
You have within yourself your most skilful teacher. All the wisdom written down in books is but a trifle compared to what your soul harbours within itself! – ”

Contents in English

Confession
Knowledge and Occurrence 
Light and Shade 
The Power of the Spirit 
The Jewel of the Heart
Crossing Over
Conversation on the Innermost East 
Conversation on the Departure of the Perfected One
The Flower Garden 
The Bad Pupils 
The Night of the Trial
Individuality and Personality
The Realm of the Soul
Finding Oneself 
On the Older Brothers of Mankind
Magic