If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.

In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.

Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it, are bound to fail in their purpose. To destroy it we have to stay out of it. If we want to cut down a tree, it is of no use to climb into its branches. The desire to keep contact with something, even to destroy it, is a subtle and insidious illusion.

Gross and subtle, pure and mixed, simple and complex - in the end that there is no place where God is not. In every atom, He alone is present. From the ant to the universe, He spreads. The Lord who cares equally for all, the compassionate one who is all knowledge, tenderness, skill, holiness and beauty - He stands on all sides everywhere.

The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul.