Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality.

And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature.

Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya system of yore. First, learn to obey. The command will come by itself. Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master.

If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation.

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.

They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.

Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature.