All law has its essence in causation.

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

The sea calm is the Absolute; the same sea in waves is Divine Mother.

Man is the greatest being that ever can be.

God is the one goal of all our passions and emotions. If you want to be angry, be angry with Him. Chide your Beloved, chide your Friend. Whom else can you safely chide? Mortal man will not patiently put up with your anger; there will be a reaction. If you are angry with me I am sure quickly to react, because I cannot patiently put up with your anger. Say unto the Beloved, "Why do You not come to me; why do You leave me thus alone?" Where is there any enjoyment but in Him? What enjoyment can there be in little clods of earth?

We never want Him. We say, "Lord, give me a fine house." We want the house, not Him. "Give me health! Save me from this difficulty!" When a man wants nothing but Him, [he gets Him].

We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".