What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.

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

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

If it be true that spirit is involved in Matter and apparent Nature is secret God, then the manifestation in the divine in himself and the realization of God within and without are the highest and most legitimate aim possible to man on earth.

To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility.

Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.

Do not belong to the past dawns,but to the noons of future