In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because they are not contradictory, not two separate existences, but different manifestations of the same unit, life and death, sorrow and happiness, good and evil.

It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good

The soul ... is nameless because it is formless. It will neither go to heaven nor [to hell] any more than it will enter this glass.

"Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable".

As the cause is, so the effect will be.

He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God?

The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.