We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom.
Buddha and Christ were second-rate heroes. The greatest men that ever live pass away unknown. They put forth no claims for themselves, establish no schools or systems in their name. They never create any stir but just melt down in love.
Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested.
Realize all this as illusion, realize that within the illusion is the Real.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
All the superior religions had their growth between the Ganga and the Euphrates.