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".

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.

YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind.

In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body.

When I Asked God for Strength He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face When I Asked God for Brain & Brawn He Gave Me Puzzles in Life to Solve When I Asked God for Happiness He Showed Me Some Unhappy People When I Asked God for Wealth He Showed Me How to Work Hard When I Asked God for Favors He Showed Me Opportunities to Work Hard When I Asked God for Peace He Showed Me How to Help Others God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted He Gave Me Everything I Needed.