Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
The Force which has to be called down from above must be pure and quiet because there are all kinds of forces – it will not do to call them all. And one must have sincerity.
True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
Until you get a guidance from above you cannot be sure; but to get this guidance it requires time and sadhana.
If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.
The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought:...
There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine.
The consciousness of the supreme Purusha remains above, but in the mind there may be a Purusha consciousness which they call the cosmic consciousness – it is wide, all-pervading, one. Outside this goes on the play of Prakriti.
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
The human mind moves always forward, alters its viewpoint and enlarges its thought substance, and the effect of these changes is to render past systems of thinking obsolete or, when they are preserved, to extend, to modify and subtly or visibly to alter their value.
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others.