We see many persons talking the most wonderfully fine things about charity and about equality and the rights of other people and all that, but it is only in theory. I was so fortunate as to find one who was able to carry theory into practice. He had the most wonderful faculty of carrying everything into practice which he thought was right.

Om is the greatest, meaning the Absolute.

When you talk and think of the Absolute, you have to do it in the relative; so all these logical arguments apply.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity.

The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say “me” and “mine”; they are only blessed in being instruments

The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness.