“It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all.” 

“The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the more felt because it was not seen. I could not any more have doubted that HE was there than that I was. Indeed, I felt myself to be, if possible, the less real of the two.” 

“Damn the Absolute!” 

“When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.” 

“A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.” 

“Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.” 

“We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition” 

“If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.” 

“My experience is what I agree to attend to.” 

“There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.” 

“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. ” 

“To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds,” 

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” 

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” 

“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.” 

“Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.” 

“Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.” 

“Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.” 

“Was there ev“Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!” er a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!” 

“Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.” 

“You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.” 

“Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.” 

“Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.” 

“Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life. ”