Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative.

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

We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.

Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them.

I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your sake and for truth's to cry, "Hold!" and to raise my voice against this degradation of my race. Give up these weakening mysticism and be strong.

Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously.

Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be.