In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture

The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal , the eternal, the infinite, in a word his growth into spiritual consciousness by the development of his ordinary ignorant natural being into an illumined divine nature, this is for Indian thinking the significance of life and the aim of human existance.

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.

While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.

The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.

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