There cannot be any form unless it is the result of force and matter; and all combinations must dissolve.

Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward.

This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings...scenes on a canvas...of which I am the witness.

The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel

I am what I am, and what I am is always due to him; whatever in me or in my words is good and true and eternal came to me from his mouth, his heart, his soul. Sri Ramakrishna is the spring of this phase of the earth's religious life, of its impulses and activities. If I can show the world one glimpse of my Master, I shall not have lived in vain.

Meditation is the means of unification of the subject and object. Meditate.

The Absolute cannot be worshipped, so we must worship a manifestation.