All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.

What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.

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.

If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where to look and did so with alacrity; you found the defect and knew how to cure it. But the thing within you, the secret mainspring that alone gave meaning to life, the thing within us that alone is living, alone is capable of feeling pleasure and pain, of craving happiness and experiencing it- that was unknown. You knew nothing about that, nothing at all, and if the mainspring failed there was no cure. Wasn't it insane?

A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls