1. “India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.”
  2. “Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.”
  3. “By our stumbling the world is perfected.”
  4. “The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.”
  5. “What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being.”
  6. “The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.”
  7. “What is God after all ? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.”
  8. “But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.”
  9. “India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.”
  10. “All can be done if the god-touch is there.”
  11. “Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.”
  12. “If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.”
  13. “Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.”
  14. “Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius. It is dangerous for an army to be led by veterans; for on the other side God may place Napoleon.”
  15. “The deeper we look, the more we shall be convinced that the one thing wanting, which we must strive to acquire before all others, is strength strength physical, strength mental, strength moral, but above all strength spiritual which is the one inexhaustible and imperishable source of all the others. If we have strength everything else will be added to us easily and naturally.”
  16. “The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.”
  17. “When I had the dividing reason, I shrank from many things; after I had lost it in sight, I hunted through the world for the ugly and the repellent, but I could no longer find them.”
  18. “What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.”
  19. “Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.”
  20. “Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.”
  21. “There are two allied powers in man; knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge is so much of the truth seen in a distorted medium as the mind arrives at by groping, wisdom what the eye of divine vision sees in the spirit.”
  22. “True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.”
  23. “There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness.
  24. “When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.”
  25. “My God is love and sweetly suffers all.”
  26. “The great are strongest when they stand alone,
  27. A God-given might of being is their force.”
  28. “Do not belong to the past dawns, but to the noons of future.”
  29. “When I approached God at that time, I hardly had a living faith in Him. The agnostic was in me, the atheist was in me, the sceptic was in me and I was not absolutely sure that there was a God at all. I did not feel His presence. Yet something drew me to the truth of the Vedas, the truth of the Gita, the truth of the Hindu religion. I felt there must be a mighty truth somewhere in this Yoga, a mighty truth in this religion based on the Vedanta.”

Source: AWAKEN