The need for truth is more sacred than any other need.
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
War is the supreme form of prestige.
One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.
Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
Love is not consolation, it is light.
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.