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.

It was always the poor grass that suffered most when two kings went to war.

Unending LoveI seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…In life after life, in age after age, forever.My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,That you take as a gift,...

When I stand before thee at the day’s end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

I am just coming from my visit to Japan, where I exhorted this young nation to take its stand upon the higher ideals of humanity and never to follow the West in its acceptance of...

The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws, is imperfect. But it is perfect when our consciousness realizes...

There is a moral law in this world which has its application both to individuals and organized bodies of men. You cannot go on violating these laws in the name of your nation, yet enjoy...

If anger be the basis of our political activities, the excitement tends to become an end in itself, at the expense of the object to be achieved. side issues then assume an exaggerated importance, and...

The biggest changes in a women’s nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

Clouds come into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

“Let me light my lamp”, says the star, “And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness

Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.

The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and he has to wonder through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

Our creation is the modification of relationship.

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

It is not easy to get rid of weeds; but it is easy, by a process of neglect, to ruin your food crops and let them revert to their primitive state of wildness. […] In...

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it...

The newer people, of this modern age, are more eager to amass than to realize.

By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess.

Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

Because each nation has its own history of thieving and lies and broken faith, therefore there can only flourish international suspicion and jealousy, and international moral shame becomes anæmic to a degree of ludicrousness. The...

Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song.

Music fills the infinite between two souls

Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization.

The current of the world has its boundaries, otherwise it could have no existence, but its purpose is not shown in the boundaries which restrain it, but in its movement, which is toward perfection. The...

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.