Hinduism threw away Buddhism after taking its sap. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the two. Shankaracharya's teaching shows the influence of Buddhism. His disciples perverted his teaching and carried it to such an extreme point that some of the later reformers were right in calling the Acharya's followers "crypto-buddhists".

God is cruel and not cruel. He is all being and not being at the same time. Hence He is all contradictions. Nature also is nothing but a mass of contradictions.

When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.

There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle.

Only those who want nothing are masters of Nature.

To be more free is the goal of all our efforts, for only in perfect freedom can there be perfection.

The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ.