You are a little soul, carrying a corpse.

Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.

The gods we stand by are the gods we need and can use, the gods whose demands on us are reinforcements of our demands on ourselves and on one another.

Whenever externals are more important to you than your own integrity, then be prepared to serve them the remainder of your life.

For I am not Eternity, but a human being; a part of the whole, as an hour is part of the day. I must come like the hour, and like the hour must pass!

The acquisition of any knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

When "I" was then Hari was not, Now Hari "is" and "I" am not
All the darkness illusions mitigated, When I saw the light illumination within.

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.

To Thee Thou hast drawn my love, O Fakir... Kabîr says, "Thou hast united Thy heart to my heart, O Fakir!"

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

Let any one try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him.

As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.

If merely "feeling good" could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.

If you wish to be well spoken of, learn to speak well of others: and when you have learned to speak well of them, try to act well, and so you will reap the fruit of being well spoken of.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

If a man would pursue Philosophy, his first task is to throw away conceit. For it is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he has a conceit that he already knows.

Lift the veil that obscures the heart and there you will find what you are looking for

The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.

A drop Melting into the sea, Everyone can see. But the sea Absorped In a drop — A rare one can follow!

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosopher who say that only the educated are free.

People to whom such things are still denied come to imagine that everything good will be theirs if only they could acquire them. Then they get them: and their longing is unchanged, their anxiety is unchanged, their disgust is no less, and they still long for whatever is lacking. Freedom is not achieved by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.

God has entrusted me with myself.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.