Occupation: Journalist Birth: October 21, 1898 Death: July 27, 1981
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….
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..
The Quest not only begins in the heart but also ends there..
Whoever accepts the higher mission of art and comes nearer and nearer to it through his creative activity, will then go on from art to the Spirit dee….
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..
While the mind remains so fixed in its own personal affairs, be they little or large, it has no chance to open up its higher levels. When attention a….
If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact that they are fore….
Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an inst….
Whoever lives in the spirit lives in perennial peace. It is a happy peace, a smiling peace, but one is not lost in it. One is aware also of the suffe….
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….
Meditation is THE fundamental practice of the Quest..
Peace is a costly privilege-to be fought for, attained and won. It comes only from a conquered mind..
Outwardly one's life may suffer every kind of limitation, from bodily paralysis to miserable surroundings, but inwardly it is free in meditation to r….
When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one..
He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try..
Find the god in your own heart and you will understand by direct intuition what all the great teachers, real mystics, true philosophers and inspired ….
This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity, because it tries to provide th….
Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature begin to wel….
That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds..
When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resul….