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

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.

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.