Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling... it is not duty and not renunciation, it is not restriction: but in the infinite extent of the universe it is a direction of the heart.

Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn’t comprehend. Don’t ask for advice from them and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is strength and blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

That is the principal thing-not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it all into things.

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.