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"The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit."
"The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed."
"For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony."
"Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests."
"The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart."
"Each religion has helped mankind. Paganism increased in man the light of beauty, the largeness and height of his life, his aim at a many-sided perfection; Christianity gave him some vision of divine love and charity; Buddhism has shown him a noble way to be wiser, gentler, purer, Judaism and Islam how to be religiously faithful in action and zealously devoted to God; Hinduism has opened to him the largest and profoundest spiritual possibilities."
"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."
"India saw from the beginning, - and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, - that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities."
"Spirituality is the master key of the Indian mind. It is this dominant inclination of India which gives character to all the expressions of her culture. In fact, they have grown out of her inborn spiritual tendency of which her religion is a natural out flowering. The Indian mind has always realized that the Supreme is the Infinite and perceived that to the soul in Nature the Infinite must always present itself in an infinite variety of aspects."
"All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure."
"The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting."
"No danger can perturb my spirit's calm."
"The language of the Veda itself is sruti, a rhythm not composed by the intellect but heard, a divine Word that same vibrating out of the Infinite to the inner audience of the man who had previously made himself fit fot the impersonal knowledge."
"This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers."
"Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey."
"India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples."
"The Person is a bubble on Time's sea."
"There is therefore no reason to put a limit to evolutionary possibility by taking our present organization or status of existence as final. The animal is a laboratory in which Nature has worked out man; man may very well be a laboratory in which she wills to work out superman, to disclose the soul as a divine being, to evolve a divine nature."
"The mind is running on all sides to think about many things, - what we call thoughts coming from outside. We must withdraw the mind from these distractions and make it abide in the self. Thus guarding the peace within we shall have to do the work without."
"We can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension of the cosmic consciousness or our attainment to the transcendent and supracosmic."