Give everything and look for no return.

Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

An atheist can be charitable but not religious. But the religious man must be charitable.

This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings...scenes on a canvas...of which I am the witness.

To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.

As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery.