We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.

When you talk and think of the Absolute, you have to do it in the relative; so all these logical arguments apply.

May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward!

What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart.

You are the creator of your own destiny

What is the idea of God in heaven? Materialism. The Vedantic idea is the infinite principle of God embodied in every one of us. God sitting up on a cloud! Think of the utter blasphemy of it! It is materialism - downright materialism. When babies think this way, it may be all right, but when grown - up men try to teach such things, it is downright disgusting - that is what it is. It is all matter, all body idea, the gross idea, the sense idea. Every bit of it is clay and nothing but clay. Is that religion?