When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty.

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.

He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts his enchantment upon these eyes and joyfully plays on the chords of my heart in varied cadence of pleasure and pain.

When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.

Love is when the soul starts to sing and the flowers of your life bloom on their own.

to tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country

We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place where the beauty of nature and the noblest pursuits of man are in a sweet harmony.