What comes from outside, one mistakes it as coming from inside. So many thoughts etc. move about outside in the universal - these manifest inside you. All these you must push away as foreign to you and the inside must be made peaceful, calm and quiet; then it will start descending from above.

Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow.

There is a veil between the Supermind above and the lower Prakriti below - the veil of ingrained formations. This veil may completely withdraw or be partially withdrawn. Thus even if there is some little opening, with the contact of Light from above the lower nature will get slowly changed.

Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite's thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.

In order to satisfy the vital being, it must be offered some activity, and at the same time the mind should be slowly made to take interest in yoga.

Can everybody contact the higher forces? No, not indeed; but they submit themselves to a discipline and this brings them success.

All existence is a manifestation of God.

The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.

Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.

The Truth-power must be brought down from above into that state of peace, and this higher power - Parashakti - will directly guide the vehicle.

Faith is the soul's witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.

Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you ... political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.

I say, of the Congress, then, this - that its aims are mistaken, that the spirit in which it proceeds towards their accomplishment is not a spirit of sincerity and whole-heartedness, and that the methods it has chosen are not the right methods, and the leaders in whom it trusts, not the right sort of men to be leaders; - in brief, that we are at present the blind led, if not by the blind, at any rate by the one-eyed.

When thou findest thyself scorning another, look then at thy own heart and laugh at thy folly.

What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.

Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act.

Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.

An aimless life is always a troubled life. Every individual should have an aim. But do not forget that the quality of your aim will depend on the quality of your life. Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others. Whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realized unless you have realized perfection in yourself.

While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.