Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.

Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life.

The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

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.

There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not losing its infinity. If this meeting is dissolved, then things become unreal.

This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and Day; the One and the Varied; the Eternal and the Evolving.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.