The object of education is to give man the unity of truth. Formerly, when life was simple, all the different elements of man were in complete harmony. But when there came the separation of the...

The best of us still have our aspirations for the supreme goals of life, which is so often mocked by prosperous people who now control the world. We still believe that the world has a...

That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.

Never be afraid of the moments – thus sings the voice of the ever-lasting.

We could have no communication whatever with our surroundings if they were absolutely foreign to us. Man is reaping success every day, and that shows there is a rational connection between him and nature, for...

Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I feel ashamed. I am certain that priceless wealth is in...

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God’s dust is greater than your idol.

The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform… Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrificed.

Set the bird’s wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

All men have poetry in their hearts, and it is necessary for them, as much as possible, to express their feelings. For this they must have a medium, moving and pliant, which can refreshingly become...

Asks the Possible of the Impossible, “Where is your dwelling-place?” “In the dreams of the Impotent,” comes the answer.

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, butfor the heart to conquer it.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

The West in the voice of her thundering cannon had said at the door of Japan, Let there be a nation—and there was a Nation. And now that it has come into existence, why do...

Nationality is respectable only when it is on the defense, when it is waging wars of liberation it is sacred; when those of domination it is accursed.

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

We live in this world when we love it.

Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional pleasure. This is nothing worthy of conceit, but I am indeed touched by the joys. This book...

Age considers; youth ventures.

Those who wish to sit, shut their eyes,and meditate to know if the world’s true or lies,may do so. It’s their choice. But I meanwhilewith hungry eyes that can’t be satisfiedshall take a look at...

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

We try to realize the essential unity of the world with the conscious soul of man; we learn to perceive the unity held together by the one Eternal Spirit, whose power creates the earth, the...

Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The mother reveals herself in the service of her children, so our true freedom is not the freedom from action but...

The emancipation of our physical nature is in attaining health, of our social being in attaining goodness, and of our self in attaining love.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.

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

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly...

The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God ‘ s right of love over his...

Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down.

Some have thought deeply and explored the meaning of thy truth, and they are great; I have listened to catch the music of thy play, and I am glad

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...