We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom.

The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles.

Everything is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless.

You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains.

Thought is like a bubble rising to the surface. When thought is joined to will, we call it power. That which strikes the sick person whom you are trying to help is not thought, but power.

Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower.

There is only one Soul in the Universe. There is no 'you' or 'me'; all variety is merged into the absolute unity, the one infinite existence - God.