Facts by themselves are not great or small; it is the forces behind them that give them their real stature. Facts have value in so far as they are significant—significant of forces, of dynamic possibilities that work out in and through them. Facts in their outward form may even directly contradict the very forces that manifest through them or are embodied in them.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
Every softening of the heart towards things of the earth is a hardening of it to the things of Heaven.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
Never seek through your desire-soul the person you love. You invite thereby not only misery to yourself but bring a curse upon one you profess to love.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
Your past has created your present; create by your present the future. You can not only obliterate the past, but make it even as if it had never been.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
As the consciousness rises upwards from the Present and broadens out, it not only creates the Future but also recreates the Past.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
To be conscious means to become aware of the truth of one’s nature and to live with the light and the force of that truth.
To be unconscious means to be ignorant of the realities that make one’s true nature, to be a mere tool driven and utilised by the forces of Untruth.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
The strongest attachment is the attachment to one’s own self—not to what one really is, but to what one has actually become. To remain what one has been in the past or is at present, to refuse to be what one is meant to be—this is human, too human.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
Let the taste of Immortality fill my mouth … all mortalities will turn insipid.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
Aspire and love …
Ascending Love leads to Immortality.
Descending Love leads to Death.
Love is defeated as often as Lust is victorious.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
There is a Light before which all other light is darkness. There is a Strength before which all other strength is weakness. There is a Joy before which all other joy is suffering.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
Behind every difficulty is hidden a Truth; overcome it and a passage is made clear for that Truth’s manifestation. Every apparent Negation is an index to an Affirmation waiting behind it.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
There is no error that cannot be repaired and even turned to advantage. There is no loss that cannot be made up and even turned to a greater gain. Each fall or failure should be only a drawing back so that you can leap to a greater height till you reach the summit and fall and fail no more.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
Never say, “I cannot”. Look more closely, you will find that it means in reality, “I want not”.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
The Heart is the blazing hearth of Aspiration, the divine door that opens into Immortality.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
The Supreme is infinite, therefore He is also finite.
To be finite is one of the infinite aspects of the Infinite.
Creation is the definition of the Infinite.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
Do not turn back seeing the desert in front. Traverse it with courage and fortitude for beyond is the promised land flowing with milk and honey.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
Discover the centre of your being and hold fast to it; only from there can you describe the perfect circle of life rounded into its absolute fullness.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
It is the Godhead in you that can reveal God to you; there is no other proof of God.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
You are always an instrument, a mere tool, so long as you are in the unconsciousness.
It is when you are conscious that you become an agent.
As long as you are unconscious, you are mostly an instrument in the hands of the Dark Forces.
When you become conscious, you are an agent who can act for, and act with, and act as, the gods.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
Your smallnesses only you can call your own; your greatness is the greatness of the Divine in you.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
All things are beautiful, for the All-beautiful is in every thing. The domain of Art encompasses the entire creation.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
Close not your senses—however earthly they may be. Fling them all wide open—open always and everywhere, but to the Divine.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
If you think for yourself or feel for yourself or act for yourself, you become a misappropriator, a dishonest trustee a—thief of force.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
All creation is fundamentally an act of self-division.
The multiplicity of the divided selves of the Supreme forms the created universe.
In and through the unnumbered divided selves, the one undivided Self still stands intact and inviolate.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
The human approaches to the Divine are dangerous. Seek God in God’s ways.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
The only atonement for a wrong thing done is to do the right thing on the next occasion.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
Each difficulty can be an opportunity for a new progress. For what is meant by a difficulty? A flaw in the nature brought before the consciousness that it may be dealt with and remedied.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
Two consciousnesses are there at two extreme and opposing poles one of the Spirit and the other of Matter. Both are static.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
The secret of Love is the joy of self-giving.
The secret of joy is self-giving. If any part in you is without joy, it means that it has not given itself, it wants to keep itself for itself.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
One must know how to wait calm—patient, unshakable—wait indefinitely, as long as that is demanded, accepting even what looks like defeat. But when the time arrives, one must know also how to be swift, impetuous, violent even—and victorious.
—Nolini Kanta Gupta
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