Is "patience" not indeed a synonym of India, confounding Time and the historians alike?
All creative scientists know that the true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions they uncover the laws of truth.
He alone who has striven and won can enrich the world by bestowing the fruits of his victorious experience.
Indians have always arisen who, discarding the immediate and absorbing prize of the hour, have sought for the realization of the highest ideals in life-not through passive renunciation, but through active struggle. The weakling who has refused the conflict, acquiring nothing, has had nothing to renounce.
"The poet is intimate with truth, while the scientist approaches awkwardly.
Mirabai knows that to find the Divine One
The only indispensable is Love."
People in general are more fond of Jala Yoga (union with food) than of Dhyana Yoga (union with God)."
Worldly people do not like the candor which shatters their delusions. Saints are not only rare but disconcerting. Even in scripture, they are often found embarrassing!"
Turning a corner, I ran into an old acquaintance-one of those long-winded fellows whose conversational powers ignore time and embrace eternity.
"Bricks and mortar sing us no audible tune; the heart opens only to the human chant of being."
