Anagarika Govinda

Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-comprehensive, and intangible as empty space.

— Anagarika Govinda

The ultimate way of Being lies beyond all contradictory pairs of opposites with which our two dimensional thinking mind operates. As soon…

— Anagarika Govinda

The cloud represents the creative power of the mind, which can assume any imaginable form. It is the ideal medium of creation…

— Anagarika Govinda

The greatest artist is one who expresses what is felt by everybody.

— Anagarika Govinda

Every individual has the potentiality to become enlightened in the course of this life or later existences

— Anagarika Govinda

Surely it is the right wish that draws us to the right place. Nothing of importance happens accidentally in our life.

— Anagarika Govinda

Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life.

— Anagarika Govinda

The power of the creative imagination is not only merely content with observing the world as it is, accepting a given reality,…

— Anagarika Govinda

The feeling of awe and sense of wonder arises from the recognition of the deep mystery that surrounds us everywhere, and this…

— Anagarika Govinda

Do not keep what you have selfishly bottled up; pour it out, share it with the world.

— Anagarika Govinda

The wonders of a journey consist far more of such intangible experiences and unexpected situations than of factual things and events of…

— Anagarika Govinda

To see the greatness of a mountain, one must keep one's distance.

— Anagarika Govinda

The faculty of continual transformation... is a profound expression of the dynamic character of the mind

— Anagarika Govinda

The forces which move the cosmos are not different from those which move the human soul.

— Anagarika Govinda

To the enlightened man... whose consciousness embraces the universe, to him the universe becomes his 'body', while the physical body becomes the…

— Anagarika Govinda