Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]

He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.

If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.

A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges. No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees. The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.

An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive

So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination. Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.