Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality.

You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher.

You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death.

He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God?