That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness - the Self.

Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.

The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.

The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.

God's grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.

Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.

Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.