Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.
Each soul is potentially divine.
Art must be in touch with nature – and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates – yet it must be above nature.
Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves – art, literature, science, religion.
Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong.
The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.
God is the ever active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time and again destroyed.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind.
I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true.
My son, hold fast! Do not care for anybody to help you. Is not the Lord infinitely greater than all human help? Be holy – trust in the Lord, depend on him always, and you are on the right track. Nothing can prevail against you.
When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest or the cave; we shall remain where we were but we shall understand the whole thing. The same phenomena will remain but with a new meaning.
The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but it is only in the highest form as a human being that it attains to freedom.
Oh, to live even for a day in the full light of freedom, to breathe the free air of simplicity! Isn’t that the highest purity?
We must have friendship for all; we must be merciful toward those that are in misery; when people are happy, we ought to be happy; and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
Soft-brained people, weak-minded, chicken-hearted, cannot find the truth. One has to be free, and as broad as the sky.
The essential thing in religion is making the heart pure; the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, but only the pure in heart can see the King. While we think of the world, it is only the world for us; but let us come to it with the feeling that the world is God, and we shall have God.
To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will.
You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who put your hands before your eyes and say it is dark. Take your hands away and see the light.
The happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves.
National prosperity is another name for death and degradation to millions of other races.