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"Religions, creeds and forms are only a characteristic outward sign of the spiritual impulsion and religion itself is the intensive action by which it tries to find its inward force. Its expansive movement comes in the thought which it throws out on life, the ideals which open up new horizons and which the intellect accepts and life labours to assimilate."
"Terrorism thrives on administrative violence and injustice; that is the only atmosphere in which it can thrive and grow. It sometimes follows the example of indiscriminate violence from above; it sometimes, though very rarely, sets it from below. But the power above which follows the example from below is on the way to committing suicide."
"What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden."
"The expression "from above" is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action - we call it intuition."
"A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe."
"To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition."
"A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way."
"Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite's thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God."
"Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face."
"To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use."
"The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge."
"An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force."
"Our lives are God's messengers beneath the stars."
"The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization."
"When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge."
"Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God."
"That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it."
"Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin."
"The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being."
"Man in the world's life works out the dreams of God."