Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.

So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it.

Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.

Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness.

Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.

Stand upon the Atman, then only can we truly love the world. Take a very, very high stand; knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.

Hold to the idea, "I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act," and each day the identification of yourself with thoughts and feelings will grow less, until at last you can entirely separate yourself from the mind and actually know it to be apart from yourself.