According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws, is imperfect. But it is perfect when our consciousness realizes all things as spiritually one with it, and therefore capable of giving us joy. For us the highest purpose of this world is not merely living in it, knowing it and making use of it, but realizing our own selves in it through expansion of sympathy; not alienating ourselves from it and dominating it, but comprehending and uniting it with ourselves in perfect union.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

For man is by nature an artist.

I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.

Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.

The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons

To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for more, thus I sing.