If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.

Through faithful practice, layer after layer of the mind opens before us, and each reveals new facts to us.

Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.

The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause.

Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not.

Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are.

Go and preach to all, 'Arise, awake, sleep no more: within each of you there is the power to remove all wants and all miseries. Believe this, and that power will be manifested.