The Absolute cannot be worshipped, so we must worship a manifestation.
High achievements in art, music, etc., are the results of concentration.
In art, interest must be centred on the principal theme.
Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?
Science, art, learning and metaphysical research all have their proper functions in life, but if you seek to blend them, you destroy their individual characteristics until, in time, you eliminate the spiritual, for instance, from the religious altogether.
The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries.
Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these two forces.
Every little bit, every atom inside the universe, is in a constant state of change and motion, but the universe as a whole is unchangeable, because motion or change is a relative thing; we can only think of something in motion in comparison with something which is not moving.
Everything that we perceive around us is struggling towards freedom, from the atom to the man, from the insentient, lifeless particle of matter to the highest existence on earth, the human soul. The whole universe is in fact the result of this struggle for freedom.
Not one atom can rest until it finds its freedom.
Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery.
Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe.
You cannot take away one atom of matter or one foot-pound of force. You cannot add to the universe one atom of matter or one foot-pound of force. As such, evolution does not come out of zero; then, where does it come from? From previous involution.
The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness – it is India.
The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough.
Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of our previous works, and each one of us is born with this force at our back.
It is the duty of every person to contribute in the development and progress of India.
Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck.
How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!