If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Those who own much have much to fear.

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.

Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude toward the Infinite Being must also in its expression have...

God finds himself by creating.

The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which once realized makes all movements full of meaning and joy. But if we detach its movements from that ultimate...

The man whose acquaintance with the world does not lead him deeper than science leads him, will never understand what it is that the man with the spiritual vision finds in these natural phenomena.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Trees are Earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

When I bring you colored toys, my child, I understand why there is such a play of colors on clouds, on water, and why flowers are painted in tints

Love’s over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.

The burden of self is lightened when I laugh at myself.

Mistakes live in the neighborhood of truth and therefore delude us.

You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.

He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open.

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

Clever lies become matters of self-congratulation. Solemn pledges become a farce—laughable for their very solemnity. The Nation, with all its paraphernalia of power and prosperity, its flags and pious hymns, its blasphemous prayers in the...

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us

Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.

India chose her places of pilgrimages on the top of hills and mountains, by the side of the holy rivers, in the heart of forests and by the shores of the ocean, which along with...

The man who aims at his own aggrandisement underrates everything else.

The small wisdom is like water in a glass:clear, transparent, pure.The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

We [poets] set men free from their desires.

The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union.

Man’s abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity,...

He is neither manifest nor hidden, He is neither revealed nor unrevealed: there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay.

The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man’s dharma, man’s...

At the end of the day I hasten in fear lest thy gate to be shut; but I find that yet there is time.

Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Away from the sight of thy face my heart knows no rest nor respite, and my work becomes an endless toil in a shoreless sea of toil.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of the creative urge is evidence of the force of truth...

The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We...

The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

TRUTH in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease.

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

It is the continual and stupendous dead pressure of this inhuman upon the living human under which the modern world is groaning. Not merely the subject races, but you who live under the delusion that...

Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

Those who own much have much to fear

In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals...

The revilement of the infinite in the finite, which is the motive of all creation, is not seen in its perfection in the starry heavens, in the beauty of the flowers. It is in the...

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

To thee, to thee, my fire! Thou hast been burning in my heart all these futile years. If my life were a piece of gold it would come out of its trial brighter, but it...

Music fills the infinite between two souls.