First, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action of the will. Next, assert what we really are-existence, knowledge, and bliss-being, knowing, and loving.

Not one is constant, but everything is changing.

Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression.

The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears.

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of manners and customs. It is the same land which stands firmer than any rock in the world, with its undying vigour, indestructible life. Its life is of the same nature as the soul, without beginning and without end, immortal; and we are the children of such a country.

This is the great fact: strength is life.