We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.

There is no other teacher but your own soul.

"The fool, dwelling on the bank of the Ganga, digs a well for water!" Such are we! Living in the midst of God - we must go and make images.

Through the senses, anger comes, and sorrow comes.

The kingdom of heaven is already in existence if we will have it, that perfection is already in man if he will see it.

Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?

Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced.