The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.
Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him.
To the guests that must go, bid God’s speed and brush away all traces of their steps.
Man’s abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.
By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess.
Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of the creative urge is evidence of the force of truth on our mind.
On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people into deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.
Truth reveals itself in beauty.
Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.
Work, especially good work, becomes easy only when desire has learned to discipline itself.
Love’s over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.
I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my child.
We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place where the beauty of nature and the noblest pursuits of man are in a sweet harmony.
With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.
And because I love this life I know I shall love death as well The child cries out when From the right breast the mother Takes it away, in the very next moment To find in the left one Its consolation.
The hours trip rapidly away, hiding their dreams in their skirts.
Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite.
I believe in a spiritual world – not as anything separate from this world – but as its innermost truth. With the breath we draw we must always feel this truth, that we are living in God.
Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God’s own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.
By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.