We say that if a temple, or a symbol, or an image helps you to realize the Divine within, you are welcome to it. Have two hundred images if you like. If certain forms and formulas help you to realize the Divine, God speed you; have, by all means, whatever forms, temples, whatever ceremonies you want to bring you nearer to God. But do not quarrel about them; the moment you quarrel, you are not going Godward, you are going backward towards the brutes.

Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it.

As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.

The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel

Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical part of religion, it should be as Jesus says, "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret".

The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature.

It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you.