Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.

What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart.

When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing.

Think of a space in your heart, and in the midst of that space think that a flame is burning. Think of that a flame is burning. Think of that flame as your own soul and inside the flame is another effulgent light, and that is the Soul of your soul, God. Meditate upon that in the heart.

Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation.

Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.

I have been asked many times, Why do you laugh so much and make so many jokes? I become serious sometimes-when I have a stomachache! The Lord is all blissfulness. He is the reality behind all that exists. He is the goodness, the truth in everything. You are His incarnations. That is what is glorious. The nearer you are to Him, the less you will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from Him, the more will long faces come. The more we know of Him, the more misery vanishes.