Always remember that renunciation is the root idea. Unless one is initiated into this idea, not even Brahma and the World – gods have the power to attain Mukti.
Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation.
Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously.
Renunciation is in our blood.
Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.
Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.
There is nothing so high as renunciation of self.
Your way is the best for you, but that is no sign it is the best for another.
Thoughts are living things – they travel far.
Let the end and the means be joined into one.
Every idea has to become broad till it covers the whole of this world, every aspiration must go on increasing till it has engulfed the whole of humanity, nay, the whole of life, within its scope.
Changes in the universe are not in the Absolute; they are in nature.
If you can get absolutely still for just one moment, you have reached the goal.
Knowledge of the Absolute depends upon no book, nor upon anything; it is absolute in itself. No amount of study will give this knowledge; is not theory, it is realization. Cleanse the dust from the mirror, purify your own mind, and in a flash you know that you are Brahman.
Om is the greatest, meaning the Absolute.
Only when creation stops can we find the Absolute. The Absolute is in the soul, not in creation. So by stopping creation, we come to know the Absolute.
Philosophy insists that there is a joy which is absolute, which never changes.
The Absolute and the Infinite can become this universe only by limitation.
Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible – and this is Art.
Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas.