Faith is stronger than so-called reality.

A girl had bidden me eat and drink and sleep, and had shown me friendship and had laughed at me and had called me a silly little boy. And this wonderful friend had talked to me of the saints and shown me that even when I had outdone myself in absurdity I was not alone.

All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.

Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen.

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.

All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?