The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.

No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual.

The world has not gone one step beyond idolatry yet.

Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?

It is not that Christ is superior to Allah, not that Allah is everything and Brahma is nothing, but it is the same one whom you call either Brahma or Allah, or Almighty, or by a hundred other names. The names are different but God is one and the same.

Service to man is service to god

May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists, the only God I believe in, the sum total of all souls-and, above all, my God the wicked, my God the miserable, my God the poor of all races, of all species, is the special object of my worship.