Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again.

We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.

Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.

Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all love.

It is weakness, says the Vedanta, which is the cause of all misery in this world. Weakness is the one cause of suffering. We become miserable because we are weak. We lie, steal, kill and commit other crimes, because we are weak. We die because we are weak. Where there is nothing to weaken us, there is no death nor sorrow. We are miserable through delusion. Give up the delusion and the whole thing vanishes.

May the shadow of the Almighty ever rest on all those you love.

The animal has its happiness in the senses, the human beings in their intellect, and the gods in spiritual contemplation. It is only to the soul that has attained to this contemplative state that the world really becomes beautiful.