You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have whatever you desire.

Learn obedience first. Among these Western nations, with such a high spirit of independence, the spirit of obedience is equally strong. We are all of us self-important, which never produces any work. Great enterprise, boundless courage, tremendous energy, and, above all, perfect obedience; these are the only traits that lead to individual and national regeneration. These traits are altogether lacking in us.

No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual.

Music alone can take you to the Highest!

The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first. As certain religions of the world say that a man who does not believe in a Personal God outside of himself is an atheist, so the Vedanta says, a man who does not believe in himself is an atheist. Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.

The effect is delusion, and therefore the cause must be delusion.