The heart becomes wide by forgetting self, but narrow by thinking of the self and pitying one's self. To gain a wide and broad heart you must have something before you to look upon, and to rest your intelligence upon - and that something is the God-ideal.

Resignation is a quality of the saintly souls.

What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.

True power is not in trying to gain power; true power is in becoming power. But how to become power? It requires an attempt to make a definite change in oneself, and that change is a kind of struggle with one's false self.

God is not justice. Justice is in his nature, but love is predominant. People attach such importance to actions and their results. They do not know that above action and result is a law which can consume the fire of hell, which can dominate even if the whole world were being drowned in the flood of destruction; they do not know that the power of love is greater than any other.

If someone strikes my heart, it does not break, but it bursts, and the flame coming out of it becomes a torch on my path.

The person who is in tune with the Universe becomes like a radio receiver, through which the voice of the Universe is transmitted.