“It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.”

Personality in man is what is “not his own” . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.

Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.

Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.

What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.

The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.

The first reason for people’s slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.

There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.

Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.

A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.

Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.

That which is easy is bad for your inner life.

Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.

Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little.

One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment – only you must first realize this.

To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ‘lives’ his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.

We both believed in love but one of us believed more than the other.

To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.

The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.

He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.

Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.

One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.

The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.