We must not forget that what I mean by the conquest of the world by spiritual thought is the sending out of the life-giving principles, not the hundreds of superstitions that we have been hugging to our breasts for centuries.

This is the line of life, this is the line of growth, and this is the line of well-being in India - to follow the track of religion.

Buddha and Christ were second-rate heroes. The greatest men that ever live pass away unknown. They put forth no claims for themselves, establish no schools or systems in their name. They never create any stir but just melt down in love.

Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body.

The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

All misery and pain come from attachment.