“A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.”

A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.

Faith is the soul’s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.

The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.

Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.

India saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

We are sons of God And must be even as he.

The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself – for this is your true self.

When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.

When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.

Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.

There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.

At some point all lies are brought to the surface and truth comes forth no matter how hard we try to hide it.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.

At some point in the last 20 years, the left moved to the center, and the right moved into a mental institution.

I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.

Age is a state of old mind. It gets to a point where if you get old enough, you forget how old you are, and that’s the best thing. And then you walk around kind of like in a fog.