According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.

The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature.

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.

Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.

Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

My son, hold fast! Do not care for anybody to help you. Is not the Lord infinitely greater than all human help? Be holy--trust in the Lord, depend on him always, and you are on the right track. Nothing can prevail against you.