The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature. We do not depend upon any external help in meditation. The touch of the soul can paint the brightest color even in the dingiest places; it can cast a fragrance over the vilest thing; it can make the wicked divine-and all enmity, all selfishness is effaced.

What is this universe but name and form?

The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.

Give up the awful disease that is creeping into our national blood, that idea of ridiculing everything, that loss of seriousness. Give that up. Be strong and have this Shraddha, and everything else is bound to follow.

To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will.

It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.

A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.