Great Throughts Treasury

"When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere."

"Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being."

"Where God is, there is no other. Where the world is, there is no God. These two will never unite. Like light and darkness."

"When we really begin to live in the world, then we understand what is meant by brotherhood or mankind, and not before."

"Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself."

"Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark."

"Who will bring light to the poor? Who will travel from door to door bringing education to them? Let these people be your God-think of them, work for them, pray for them incessantly. The Lord will show you the way."

"Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us."

"Woman has suffered for eons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite perseverance."

"Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless work."

"Women will work out their destinies-much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of women."

"Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry. The soul has no sex, no country, no place, no time."

"You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself."

"You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul."

"Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower."

"Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion."

"Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord."

"You, as body, mind, or soul, are a dream, but what you really are, is Being, Consciousness, Bliss. You are the God of this universe. You are creating the whole universe and drawing it in."