Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.

To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.

Forgiveness is praised by the Christian and the Vaishnava, but for me, I ask, "What have I to forgive and whom?"

[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.

Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.

The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.