Whatever we are doing, believing, thinking, desiring, understanding, feeling – if we are not aware of them while aware of ourselves in the present – we are asleep, and all are but embers of a dream.
By degrees, little by little, from time to time, a wise person should remove his own impurities as a smith removes the dross from silver.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
That which gives pleasure to one man gives pain to another. That sage who identifies himself with the imperishable Self and stands as a spectator of the mental modifications enjoys supreme peace and infinite bliss.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
