Each religion has helped mankind. Paganism increased in man the light of beauty, the largeness and height of his life, his aim at a many-sided perfection; Christianity gave him some vision of divine love and charity; Buddhism has shown him a noble way to be wiser, gentler, purer, Judaism and Islam how to be religiously faithful in action and zealously devoted to God; Hinduism has opened to him the largest and profoundest spiritual possibilities.

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

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.

True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.

Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one's ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.

The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.

When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.