One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning.

Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.

Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.

Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.

No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.