“India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.”

The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.

Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.

True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.

Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.

A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.

There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.

Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.

In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture

When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.

The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.

You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.

There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.

The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.

The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.

If you deeply appreciate and love what creative people do and how they think, which is usually in unpredictable and irrational ways, then you can start to understand them. And finally, you can see inside their minds and DNA.

When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success.

When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.

Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It’s a symbol.

Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.

I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.

Jackson [Rathbone] is the most artsy, creative and, I think, the most talented.

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.