Life in this world is an attempt to see God.

These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

The law of Karma is the law of causation.

Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.

Nothing else is necessary but these - love, sincerity, and patience.

Where you find the attraction for lust and wealth considerably diminished, to whatever creed he may belong, know that his inner spirit is awakening.