“An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.”

Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.

The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.

Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.

For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.

Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.

The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.

If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.

No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.

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.

That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.

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.

Your heart has always known; the work is to shovel enough mind rubble to hear it speak.

All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.

I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me.

(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.

To a mind like mine, restless, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.

Open your mind and let the pictures out