Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can. Build your hope on none.

Losing faith in one's self means losing faith in God.

Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason.

We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.

The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it is always after the general, nay, the universal. "what is it that by knowing which everything else is to be known." That is the one search.

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

Men are taught from childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are all glorious children of immortality, even those who are the weakest in manifestation.