My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.

Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be extinct, all ideality will be extinct; and in its place will reign the duality of lust and luxury as the male and female deities, with money as its priest, fraud, force, and competition its ceremonies, and the human soul its sacrifice. Such a thing can never be.

You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

Let us not depend upon the world for pleasure.

Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.

Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.