The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

There is nothing small in God's eyes; let there be nothing small in thine

Those who have advanced rise to the mind which is in the head, - they have the play of their mental movements in the head itself. But all these are inside the body; man is, as it were, shut up in a box, his entire consciousness is confined within the organism. This imprisonment has to be undone.

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.

Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.