What is the use of talking of one's mistakes to the world? They cannot thereby be undone. For what one has done one must suffer; one must try and do better. The world sympathizes only with the strong and the powerful.

We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.

Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.

According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.

Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation.

Those giants of old, the ancient Rishis, who never walked but strode, of whom if you were to think but for a moment you would shrivel up into a moth, they sir, had time-and you have no time!

The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm (which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you. It is like the hydrostatic paradox, one drop of water can balance the universe.