“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.”

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.

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.

What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

Yoga is when you feel pure consciousness and spirit.

Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.

For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness.

When consciousness has no thoughts in it, one can experience spirit and live in harmony with the universal forces.

The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.

Enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries.