Quotes

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Of course man is useful to man, because his body is a marvelous machine and his mind an organ of wonderful efficiency. But he is a spirit as well, and this spirit is truly known only by love.

It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!

If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps - does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.

All the great utterances of man have to be judged not by the letter but by the spirit - the spirit which unfolds itself with the growth of life in history.

Who could have breathed or moved if the sky were not filled with joy, with love?

Never be afraid of the moments-thus sings the voice of the everlasting.

Civilization must be judged and prized, not by the amount of power it has developed, but by how much it has evolved and given expression to, by its laws and institutions, the love of humanity.

The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

In love all the contradictions of existence merge themselves and are lost. Only in love are unity and duality not at variance. Love must be one and two at the same time.

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

Only love is motion and rest in one. Our heart ever changes its place till it finds love, and then it has its rest. But this rest itself is an intense form of activity where utter quiescence and unceasing energy meet at the same point in love.

Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. It is not a mere sentiment; it is truth; it is the joy that is at the root of all creation

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words that are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Asks the Possible to the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling place?" "In the dreams of the impotent," comes the answer.

Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Time is the wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.

In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.

Thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

The fountain of death makes the still water of life play.

My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes.

Wishing to hearten a timid lamp, great night lights all her stars.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.

The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time, unobscured by the dust of history.

Light finds her treasure of colors through the antagonism of clouds.

India chose her places of pilgrimages on the top of hills and mountains, by the side of the holy rivers, in the heart of forests and by the shores of the ocean, which along with the sky, is our nearest visible symbol of the vast, the boundless, the infinite and the sublime.

God finds himself by creating.