All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative.

When we come to nonattachment, then we can understand the marvelous mystery of the universe: how it is intense activity and at the same time intense peace, how it is work every moment and rest every moment.

We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion.

In the English character, the "give and take" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent.

Everything has a cause.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by work. It is a question of knowledge! You must know what you are, and it is done. The dream vanishes. This you [and others] are dreaming here. When they die, they go to [the] heaven [of their dream]. They live in that dream, and [when it ends], they take a nice body [here], and they are good people.