To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.

The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth."

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong.

For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it supplants the idea which it should support.

Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.

The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted.