As we progress and awaken to the soul in us and things, we shall realise that there is a consciousness also in the plant, in the metal, in the atom, in electricity, in everything that belongs to physical nature; we shall find even that is not really in all respects a lower or more limited mode than the mental, on the contrary it is in many ‘inanimate’ forms more intense, rapid, poignant, though less evolved towards the surface.
[The Synthesis of Yoga, p-370-71]
Faith is an intuition, an intuition not only waiting for experience to justify it, but leading towards experience.
[Letters on Yoga, p-166]
Let all men jeer at me if they will or all Hell fall upon me if it will for my presumption –I go on till I conquer or perish. This is the spirit in which I seek the Supermind, no hunting for greatness for myself or others…
[On Himself, p-144]
For the Sadhaka of the integral Yoga it is necessary to remember that no written Shastra, however great its authority or however large its spirit, can be more than a partial expression of the eternal knowledge. He will use, but never bind himself even by the greatest Scripture…He must live in his own soul beyond the written Truth…He is a Sadhaka of the infinite.
[The Synthesis of Yoga, p-49]
The process of Yoga is a turning of the human soul from the egoistic state of consciousness absorbed in the outward appearances and attractions of things to a higher state
[The Synthesis of Yoga, p-51]
