"It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards...." - Quote by Swami Vivekananda

“You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving.”

“The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.”

“That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.”

“Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.”

“Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.”

“I do not put much emphasis on periods of meditation - if you do meditation, it's fine - but the important thing is to bring the awareness into everyday life, into every little action that you do, into the varied challenges of everyday life.”

“The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.”

“There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.”

“We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss the meaning and grandeur of the forest they compose.”