APHORISTIC WORDS
IT is in peace that knowledge and power are truly effective.
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It is by a quiet, strong, persistent peace that the true victories can be won.
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A smile acts upon difficulties as the sun upon the clouds—it disperses them.
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To smile at an enemy is to disarm him.
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To be concerned for one's happiness is the surest way of becoming unhappy.
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To conquer a desire brings more joy than to satisfy it.
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Each meditation ought to be a new revelation, for in each meditation something new happens.
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Peace and stillness are the great remedy for diseases, When we can bring peace into our cells we are cured.
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The body should reject illness as energetically as in the mind we reject falsehood.
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Work done in the true spirit is meditation.
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It is only when people truly want their consciousness to be changed that their actions also can be changed.
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The work done through love and because of love is surely the most powerful.
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Let us work as we pray, for indeed work is the body's best prayer to the Divine.
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Fear is always a very bad adviser.
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You can be entirely free from fear only when you. Have driven out of you all violence.
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Jealousy comes from a narrowness of the mind and a weakness of the heart. It is a great pity that so many are attacked by it,
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The more a mind is ignorant the more easily it judges everything it does not know or is incapable of understanding.
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When two persons quarrel, always both are in the wrong.
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An impulsive person who cannot control himself has a disordered life.
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In true courage there is no impatience and no rashness.
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He only is never vanquished who refuses to be vanquished.
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A noblest courage is to recognise one's faults.
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To be above offence or insult makes one truly great.
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To speak always the truth is the highest title of nobility.
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Heroism is to be able to stand for the Truth in all circumstances, to declare it amidst opposition and to fight for it whenever necessary.
And to act always from one*a highest consciousness.
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One grows into the likeness of what one loves.
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Only he who loves can recognise love. Those who are capable of giving themselves in a sincere love, will never recognise love anywhere, and the more the love is divine, that is to say unselfish, the less they can recognise it.
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There is a deep and True Consciousness in which ail can meet in love and harmony.
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Concentration upon oneself means decay and death—Concentration on the Divine alone brings life and growth and realisation.
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Sincerity is the, key of the divine doors.
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Without the Divine, life is a painful illusion, with the Divine all is bliss.
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To love truly the Divine we must rise above attachments.
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To will what God wills—that is the supreme secret.
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