We are in conflict with the world; otherwise, there would be no necessity to put forth tremendous effort to meet the world and its demands.

Do not make the mistake of thinking that the soul is inside you, because if the soul is inside you, you will be outside it.

The soul's illness is more terrible and more difficult to understand than the illness of the body or any other type of malady.

The duty that we owe to the Universe is our religion.

Yoga is anything which reveals or reflects the wholeness that we truly are, and the world is anything that makes us feel that we are fragmented, dissected, cut into pieces and out of tune with ourselves.

That higher awakening is called God-consciousness. In that condition, you will see that all the objects of the world are your own universal self.

We always imagine that the Supreme Being is very far away -many, many millions of light years away- yet It is very near, in our throat itself.