“No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.”

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.

…Promises are more dangerous then secrets.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.

All beings tremble before danger, all fear death. When a man considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill.

To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.

We’re different, and you’re dangerous.” That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It’s dangerous to create that kind of tension.

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

The internet creates chaos and a dangerous kind of piracy but makes the viewer much more active and gives the voice to minority players.

When men – insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea – have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included