The mind is running on all sides to think about many things, - what we call thoughts coming from outside. We must withdraw the mind from these distractions and make it abide in the self. Thus guarding the peace within we shall have to do the work without.

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.

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.

Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.

But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.

An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.