If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are you to lose sight of practicality. We must avoid the two extremes.... You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality.

Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other.

If you dare declare that you are free, free you are this moment. If you say you are bound, bound you will remain.

Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck.

Through faithful practice, layer after layer of the mind opens before us, and each reveals new facts to us.

Chârvâkas, a very ancient sect in India, were rank materialists.

Wait with patience and love and strength. If helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings.