On a Japanese boat to India, two English clergymen, Anglican and Presbyterian, nearly quarreled over who would lead a Sunday service.
At the Feet of The Mother
The Mother's Writings
The Buddha has said that there is a greater joy in overcoming a desire than in satisfying it.
Between the age of eighteen and twenty I had attained a conscious and constant union with the divine Presence and that I had done it all alone.
One can learn how to identify oneself. One must learn. It is indispensable if one wants to get out of one’s ego.
Optimism fades with age, and some remain unaware of others' suffering, as seen in those who never experience hardship.
I knew all the greatest artists of the last century or the beginning of this century, and they truly had a sense of beauty, but morally, some of them were very crude.
What has made art what it is, do you want me to tell you this, psychologically?... it is photography.
Perhaps Beethoven’s psychic being had taken body in a shoemaker or anybody else, one does not know!