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.

Only those who want nothing are masters of Nature.

The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves.

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.

Some people are so afraid of losing their individuality. Wouldn't it be better for the pig to lose his pig-individuality if he can become God? Yes. But the poor pig does not think so at the time. Which state is my individuality? When I was a baby sprawling on the floor trying to swallow my thumb? Was that the individuality I should be sorry to lose? Fifty years hence I shall look upon this present state and laugh, just as I now look upon the baby state. Which of these individualities shall I keep?

Here in this blessed land, the foundation, the backbone, the life-centre is religion and religion alone.

Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression.