Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.

You cannot teach a child any more than you can grow a plant. All you can do is on the negative side - you can only help. It is a manifestation from within; it develops its own nature - you can only take away obstructions.

Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality.

Let us make our hearts as big as an ocean, to go beyond all the trifles of the world and see it only as a picture. We can then enjoy the world without being in any way affected by it.

Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.

Realize all this as illusion, realize that within the illusion is the Real.

Nobody has a right now to say that the Hindus are not liberal to a fault.