Occupation: Journalist Birth: October 21, 1898 Death: July 27, 1981
Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines..
If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to the higher power in helplessness for relief, or ….
Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a strength which is rock-lik….
When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resul….
Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his nature--the spiritual--is starving for true food, and ….
Look how the smaller birds greet the sun, with so much merry chirruping and so much outpouring of song! It is their way of expressing worship for the….
The seeker after stillness should be told that the stillness is always there. Indeed it is in every man. But he has to learn, first, to let it in and….
Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction..
When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvio….
Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew..
Your self is sacred; be true to it..
This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative e….
The world is our school for spiritual discovery..
He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try..
No man who has lived through a temporary spiritual experience is ever likely to forget it. His days will be haunted until he sets out to seek ways an….
The ego will always be able to find ways to keep the aspirant busy in self-improvement, thus binding him or her to the fact that the self is still th….
Worry is spiritual short sight... Its cure is intelligent faith..
Nothing matters so much that we should throw ourselves into a state of panic about it. No happening is so important that we should let ourselves be….
That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds..
Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live..
Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own….