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

The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its narrowness, one set of dogmas, one cult, one system of ceremonies, one ecclesiastical ordinance, one array of prohibitions and injunctions which all minds must accept on peril of persecution by men and spiritual rejection or eternal punishment by God, that grotesque creation of human unreason which has been the parent of so much intolerance, cruelty and obscurantism and aggressive fanaticism, has never been able to take firm hold of the Indian mentality.

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

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.

Thy goal, the road thou choosest are thy fate.

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, - truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

In the middle of an ocean on board a ship, one can get a sense of vastness.