Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones.

To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance.

The world is a demon. It is a kingdom of which the puny ego is king. Put it away and stand firm.

Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it.

Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not I. Tell yourself this unceasingly and realise it. Try not to know that you work.

Never are we nearer the Light than when the darkness is deepest.

Those reformers who preach against image-worship, or what they denounce as idolatry - to them I say "Brothers, if you are fit to worship God-without-form discarding all external help, do so, but why do you condemn others who cannot do the same?"