I am persuaded that a leader is not made in one life. He has to be born for it. For the difficulty is not in organisation and making plans; the test, the real test, of the leader, lies in holding widely different people together along the line of their common sympathies. And this can only be done unconsciously, never by trying.

Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.

Om is the pointed piece and Dhyâna (meditation) is the friction.

Every time you think of doing some charity, you think there is some beggar to take your charity. If you say, "O Lord, let the world be full of charitable people!" - you mean, let the world be full of beggars also. Let the world be full of good works - let the world be full of misery. This is out-and-out slavishness!

Help and not fight. Assimilation and not destruction. Harmony and Peace and not dissension.

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

The sea calm is the Absolute; the same sea in waves is Divine Mother.