All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance of exclusiveness.

Only in the human form is it possible for life to attain its final goal, which is to realize the all-pervading and infinite Divinity.

One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.

But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.

I only know one yoga: 'You Go.'

God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.

If I were to ask the famous Henry Ford to come over here and do what I tell him to do, would he do it? Never! But if I were to make a thousand-year-old corpse come alive before his eyes, he would jump at the chance to stay here and wash my clothes!