In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.

Form and formless are intertwined in this world. The formless can only be expressed in form and form can only be thought with the formless.

If I am a Pariah, I will be all the more glad, for I am the disciple of a man, who - the Brahmin of Brahmins - wanted to cleanse the house of a Pariah. (here "the man" means Ramakrishna)

Cowardice is no virtue.

...never try to follow another's path for that is his way, not yours. When that path is found, you have nothing to do but fold your arms and the tide will carry you to freedom.

Om is the pointed piece and Dhyâna (meditation) is the friction.

As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know ourselves to be the One, fear goes; of what can we be afraid.?