Detachment is the beginning of mastery.

The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself - for this is your true self.

To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.

One can see light above the head; that indicates a consciousness outside the body. But that itself is not the Truth-Consciousness or Vijnana. But much light descending from there illumines this consciousness.

It will not do to depend on the mind alone.

What you call the psychic being is the mind of the vital. The heart is the seat of this mind. And this mind is the essence of the senses. It receives things from outside, acts upon things that are outside - knows, gives consent, takes interest in them. But this mind cannot be the Ishwara, but it is the knower, the giver of the consent.

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.