Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.

Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal.

The true battlefield is within.

I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt the way of life of the future. . . without having to wait for others to do so.

We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time.

It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.