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

The Absolute is the material of both God and man.

Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.

The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness.

Body is the name of a series of changes.

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens to his body, he is miserable. In the senses both his misery and his happiness begin and end.