Those who have advanced rise to the mind which is in the head, – they have the play of their mental movements in the head itself. But all these are inside the body; man is, as it were, shut up in a box, his entire consciousness is confined within the organism. This imprisonment has to be undone.
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
To make a revolution is not in the grain of our people’s nature.
There is no greater pride and glory than to be a perfect instrument of the Master.
A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
Your mind has some clearness and capacity for right thinking; it opens towards the heights, but for its own sake, – to receive light from above for its own activity.
Can everybody contact the higher forces? No, not indeed; but they submit themselves to a discipline and this brings them success.
Our lives are God’s messengers beneath the stars.
If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.
If it be true that spirit is involved in Matter and apparent Nature is secret God, then the manifestation in the divine in himself and the realization of God within and without are the highest and most legitimate aim possible to man on earth.
What sort of politics you people do? Such is the way of all parliaments: one can sense even beforehand the trend of voting, in which direction it will turn.
Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.