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

Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own intellectual, moral, aesthetic and practical capacities and to grow freely as an organic being, not to be kneaded and pressured into form like an inert plastic material

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

Threefold are those supreme births of this divine force that is in the world, they are true, they are desirable; he moves there wide-overt within the Infinite and shines pure, luminous and fulfilling.... Of that which is in mortal in mortals, and possessed of the truth, is a God and established inwardly as an energy working out in our divine powers.... Become high uplifted, O Strength, pierce all veils, manifest in as the things of the Godhead.

There is nothing small in God's eyes; let there be nothing small in thine