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.

Man’s cry is to reach his fullest expression.

We believe that mere movement is life, and that the more velocity it has, the more it expresses vitality.

I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted, and the time come to take shelter...

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Gross utility kills beauty. We now have all over the world huge production of things, huge organizations, huge administrations of empire – all obstructing the path of life. Civilization is waiting for a great consummation,...

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, but for the heart to conquer it. Let me...

You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed

The picture of a flower in a botanical book is information; its mission ends with our knowledge. But in pure art it is a personal communication. And therefore until it finds its harmony in the...

I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free.But it is not free to sing. So...

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection… But this is the real question we ought to ask: Is this imperfection the final truth, is evil absolute...

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions… Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

Objects of knowledge maintain an infinite distance from us who are the knowers. For knowledge is not union. Therefore the further world of freedom awaits us there where we reach truth, not through feeling it...

when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

Read books when you are free, read minds when you are’nt….but do read…

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

In the world’s audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight

The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air

I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.

When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre in our soul by the power...

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of...

Night’s darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.

There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without,...

The fountain of death makes the still waters of life play.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;Where knowledge is free;Where the world has not been broked up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;…Where the clear stream of reason has not...

Aku lari bagai musang lari dalam bayang-bayang rimba, gila dengan wanginya sendiri. Malamnya malam pertengahan Mei dan anginnya angin selatan. Aku kehilangan jala dan aku pun mengelana. Aku mencari apa yang tak bisa kudapat, aku...

If life’s journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our...