The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.

The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.

The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down.

Everything is the living God, the living Christ; see it as such.

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

All real progress must be slow.

You must keep a strict eye on your health; let everything else be subordinated to that.