Truth alone triumphs, not untruth. Through truth alone lies the way to Devayana (the way to the gods). Those who think that a little sugar - coating of untruth helps the spread of truth are mistaken and will find in the long run that a single drop of poison poisons the whole mass ... The man who is pure, and who dares, does all things.

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

The forms have value only so far as they are expressions of the life within. If they have ceased to express life, crush them out without mercy.

Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.

We have to keep the body in good health; we have to take care of what we eat and drink, and what we do.

Sri Ramakrishna is far greater than the disciples understand him to be. He is the embodiment of infinite spiritual ideas capable of development in infinite ways....One glance of his gracious eyes can create a hundred thousand Vivekanandas at this instant. If he chooses now, instead, to work through me, making me his instrument, I can only bow to his will.

Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down.