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

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of...

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

But now, where the spirit of the Western nationalism prevails, the whole people is being taught from boyhood to foster hatreds and ambitions by all kinds of means—by the manufacture of half-truths and untruths in...

If I say that He is within me, the universe is ashamed; if I say that He is without me, it is falsehood.

Truth cannot afford to be tolerant where it faces positive evil.

I’m lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth’s last love. I will take life’s final offering, I will take the last human blessing.

Those institutions which are static in their nature raise walls of division; this is why, in the history of religions, priesthood has always maintained dissensions and hindered the freedom of man. But the principle of...

Children are living beings – more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere...

Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones — the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

Love gives beauty to everything it touches. Not greed and utility; they produce offices, but not dwelling houses. To be able to love material things, to clothe them with tender grace, and yet not be...

Music is the purest form of art… therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music… The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his...

Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty.

We can look upon a road from two different points of view. One regards it as dividing us from the object of desire; in that case we count every step of our journey over it...

The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings—and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for...

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

Do not say, “It is morning,” and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a new-born child that has no name.

True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters. It is science but not its wrong application to life.

Taking shelter in the dead is death itself, and only taking all the risk of life to the fullest extent is living.

In the night we stumble over things and become acutely conscious of their separateness, but the day reveals the unity which embraces them. And the man whose inner vision is bathed in consciousness at once...

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy.When grace is lost from life, come with a burst of song.When tumultuous work raises its din on all sides...

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

I do not for a moment suggest that Japan should be unmindful of acquiring modern weapons of self-protection. But this should never be allowed to go beyond her instinct of self-preservation. She must know that...

When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part with out fruits with joy.

Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence.

I have no faith in my works. I know time’s ocean, its lashing of waves, day by day, will erase them. My faith is in my self.

We can make truth ours by actively modulating its inter-relations. This is the work of art; for reality is not based in the substance of things but in the principle of relationship. Truth is the...

Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the...

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

We live in the world when we love it.

God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeksslaves and claims obedience.

We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place where the beauty of nature and the noblest pursuits of man...

I miss the meaning of my own part in the play of life because I know not the parts that others play

To understand anything is to find in it something which is our own, and it is the discovery of ourselves outside us which makes us glad. This relation of understanding is partial, but the relation...

But when physical appearance evades the scrutiny of our senses and enters the sanctuary of our hearts, then it can forget itself. I know, from my childhood’s experience, how devotion is beauty itself, in its...

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend

This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life,...

Your mission is proving that a love for the earth, and for the things of the earth, is possible without materialism, a love without greed… I entreat you not to be turned by the call...

It is our desires that limit the scope of our self-realization, hinder our extension of consciousness, and give rise to sin, which is the innermost barrier that keeps us apart from our God, setting up...

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

A fancy comes to me–that desire can never attain its object–it need never attain it.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

If he is weak enough to grow smaller to fit himself to his covering, then it becomes a process of gradual suicide by shrinkage of the soul.

The most important lesson that man can learn from his life is not that there is pain in this world, but that it depends upon him to turn it into good account, that it is...

Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.