Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.
The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves.
The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature.
The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too.
The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely.
The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
There is implanted in every man, naturally, a strong desire for progress.
We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth.
We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.
We know there is no progress in a straight line.
We shall progress inch by inch.
What we want is progress, development, realisation.
Wherever there has been expansion in love or progress in well-being, of individuals or numbers, it has been through the perception, realisation, and the practicalisation of the Eternal Truth-the oneness of all beings.
These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides.
God is cruel and not cruel. He is all being and not being at the same time. Hence He is all contradictions. Nature also is nothing but a mass of contradictions.
In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because they are not contradictory, not two separate existences, but different manifestations of the same unit, life and death, sorrow and happiness, good and evil.
The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time.
There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.
Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man.
The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don’t make it metaphysical at all.