If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature.

It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards.

Proclaim the glory of the Atman with the roar of a lion, and impart fearlessness unto all beings by saying, 'Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached'!

Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?

You know your real nature [to be divine]. You are the king and play you are a beggar. . . . It is all fun. Know it and play. That is all there is to it. Then practice it. The whole universe is a vast play.

We must not forget that health is only a means to an end. If health were the end, we would be like animals; animals rarely become unhealthy.

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