For one thing we may be grateful: this life is not eternal.

Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation.

As thou thinkest, so art thou.

From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the ruin of discrimination; and from the ruin of discrimination, a man perishes.

Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.

"Some would call you a saint, some a chandala; some a lunatic, others a demon. Go on then straight to thy work without heeding either" - thus saith one of our great Sannyasins, an old emperor of India, King Bhartrihari, who joined the order in old times.

The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.