I know that previously I would not have dared to express myself so explicitly about so uncertain a matter. I can take this risk because I am now in my eighth decade, and the changing opinions of men scarcely impress me any more; the thoughts of the old masters are of greater value to me than the philosophical prejudices of the Western mind.

Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.

To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.

...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.

No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it. Irrespective of our conscious convictions, each one of us, without exception, being a particle of the general mass, is somewhere attached to, colored by, or even undermined by the spirit which goes through the mass. Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.