Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true.

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.

This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.

Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.