High achievements in art, music, etc., are the results of concentration.

Learn obedience first. Among these Western nations, with such a high spirit of independence, the spirit of obedience is equally strong. We are all of us self-important, which never produces any work. Great enterprise, boundless courage, tremendous energy, and, above all, perfect obedience; these are the only traits that lead to individual and national regeneration. These traits are altogether lacking in us.

It is faith that makes a lion of a man.

Everything is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless.

All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.

All perfection is there already in the soul. But this perfection has been covered up by nature; layer after layer of nature is covering this purity of the soul.

Everything that occupies space has form. The formless can only be infinite.