The body with its perfect mechanism loses power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness, when the soul departs from the body. This shows that the power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness belong to the soul.

Mastery lies not merely in stilling the mind, but in directing it towards whatever point we desire, in allowing it to be active as far as we wish, in using it to fulfill our purpose, in causing it to be still when we want to still it. He who has come to this has created his heaven within himself; he has no need to wait for a heaven in the hereafter, for he has produced it within his own mind now.

He who with sincerity seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose.

If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.

Spiritual progress is the changing of the point of view.

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

To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.