Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.

There should of course be left a field of work for the sake of experiment but at all times one must remember that there will always remain open a possibility of err.

Do not allow things to intrude from outside.

Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.

In order to explain why the ordinary Sadhus and Yogis take to tobacco and gānja [an intoxicant], I said that these cause stimulation of the physical brain. But these have reactions. And to stimulate the brain thus is not the proper process.

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.

But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.