We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man's character changes.

Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work - this is the only way. Go on; remember - patience and purity and courage and steady work. . . . So long as you are pure, and true to your principles, you will never fail.

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these two forces.

Do you think these sannyasi children of Sri Ramakrishna are born to simply to sit under trees lighting dhuni-fires? Whenever any of them will take up some work, people will be astonished to see their energy. Learn from them how to work.

The Absolute does not change, or re-evolve.