The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a religious life. The more sects there are, the more opportunities there are for making a successful appeal to the divine instinct in all of us.

No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny.

No doubt it is an evil to be bound by laws, but it is necessary at the immature stage to be guided by rules; in other words, as the Master used to say that the sapling must be hedged round, and so on.

Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong.

What is the world that is to be given up? It is here. I am carrying it all with me. My own body. It is all for this body that I put my hand voluntarily upon my fellow human beings, just to keep it nice and give it a little pleasure. It is all for the body that I injure others and make mistakes.

Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.

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?