To feed death with her works is here life’s doom.
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
The heart’s words fall back unheard from Wisdom’s throne.
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes.
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the mire, Life the frail joy that regrets its briefness, life the long sorrow.
What have I to forgive and whom?
All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.
Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow.
There should of course be left a field of work for the sake of experiment but at all times one must remember that there will always remain open a possibility of err.
There are two powers that alone can effect in their conjunction the great and dificult thing which is the aim of our endeavour, a fixed and unfailing aspiration that calls from below and a supreme Grace from above that answers.
To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant.
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
The supramental transformation, the supramental evolution must carry with it a lifting of mind, life and body out of themselves into a greater way of being in which yet their own ways and powers would be, not suppressed or abolished, but perfected and fulfilled by the self-exceeding.
Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and Eternal Knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.
The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.