Praise and blame, good and bad, even heat and cold, must be equally acceptable to us.

You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher.

Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God. It is also a fact that the knowledge of God is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing God can we understand human nature.

Is God to blame for what I myself have done?

Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out of this Akasha.

Be Grateful to the Man you help, think of Him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men?

It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good