“Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.”

My God is love and sweetly suffers all.

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

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.

Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.

By your stumbling, the world is perfected.

But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.

Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.

There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine

Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.

The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.

The soul in man is greater than his fate.

The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.

He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.

The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.

The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.

Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.

I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.

An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.

What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

Yoga is when you feel pure consciousness and spirit.

Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.

For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness.

When consciousness has no thoughts in it, one can experience spirit and live in harmony with the universal forces.