All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.

We must not forget that health is only a means to an end. If health were the end, we would be like animals; animals rarely become unhealthy.

Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.

According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that, what is called the Atman, the Self.

After so much austerity I have known that the highest truth is this: He is present in every being! These are all in manifold forms of him. There is no other God to seek for! He alone is worshipping God, who serves all beings!

The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals

The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do.