“To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.”

The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.

The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.

Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.

Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.

Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one’s ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.

Detachment is the beginning of mastery.

Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.

Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.

The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.

Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.

Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.

Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.