“One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.”

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.

Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.

The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.

My sister was the singer, and I always had the mentality there could only be one in the family.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.

We can look for beauty in the mirror, but the mirror only reflects one aspect of who we are.

Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you – indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you. Be in yourself a matter for all forms of belief, for God is too vast and tremendous to be restricted to one belief rather than another.

As her words became poetry, the poetry became a song. As her heart became his, he became one with her.